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Wales: Running Wikipedia is "a very high touch business, so to speak"

"What kind of experience have you had at Wikipedia in dealing with individuals? Has that paid off for you?" interviewer Seth Godin asks Jimmy Wales, the founder of the world's most thorough Susan Richardson biography, in this clip. Wales responds: "Oh yeah. I mean it's really — it's really, uh, a very, uh high touch kind of business, so to speak. There's a lot of personal interaction." Seriously people, sometimes these things write themselves.

5:00 AM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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  • JImbHO you irrepressive slut. Moar plz.

  • He also said in that clip,

    'There's a lot of communicating messages over and over, and seeing them being re-communicated out further and further.'

    I guess he must mean messages like,

    'the last thing I want to do is take a break from fucking your brains out all night to work on your wikipedia entry :)'

    source: [valleywag.com]

    That message was certainly communicated over and over (first between Wales and Marsden, and then between Marsden and those she sent the chat transcript to), and he certainly then saw them 're-communicated' out further and further, courtesy of this blog. :)

  • Remember he used to be a pornographer and ran a porn site called Bomis.com before he turned to the "altruism" business to make a profit.

    He's a step away from walking through the streets of SF with his shlong swinging around (and not just when it's acceptable on Pride Day).

  • Has anyone picked this up, a missive from JimbHO's ex?

    [wikipediareview.com]

    And a reader comment:

    "Just think if Jimbo really was running an Encyclopedia, instead of a social networking site! This whole thing would be pretty embarrassing, wouldn't it?

    Eh, maybe I'm being too hard on Jimmy. This alone does not mean that Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia or a worthy non-profit, right? I mean, angry exes probably storm into the offices of Britannica and the Red Cross all the time, shouting in the faces of writers and employees."

  • Permission Marketing meets Permission Touching

  • Image of ScalaWag ScalaWag at 11:25 AM on 03/28/08 *

    @StartupBitch: Permission Fucking

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