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Jimmy Wales plans "quieter life"

"Planning a quieter life," Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales Twittered on Sunday. Good luck with that, Jimbo! Even Wales realized that was impossible: He later backpedaled on the request.

4:30 PM on Mon Mar 3 2008, by Owen Thomas, 1,047 views, Comment
http://valleywag.com/363335/jimmy-wales-plans-quieter-life

Jimmy Wales bores crowd with stump speech in Norway

"Yesterday we went to see Jimmy Wales speak at the Nobel Peace Prize Center during the seminar 'How Free is the Internet.' Jimbo was less controversial than his wikipedia page and his jokes were not funny." — Aeron Bergman and Alejandra...

12:00 PM on Tue May 6 2008, by Owen Thomas, 729 views, Comment
http://valleywag.com/387716/jimmy-wales-bores-crowd-with-stump-speech-in-norway

Craig Newmark of Craigslist has high praise for friend Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. "What Jimmy has done through Wikipedia is change the way people write history. Before, it was guys with guns, now it's anyone." Well, to be accurate,...

5:33 PM on Thu Jul 19 2007, by Megan McCarthy, 217 views, Comment
http://valleywag.com/tech/quotable/-280521.php

dannyisme

A green version of Wikia, Jimmy Wale's for-profit followup to Wikipedia? On this subject, our featured commenter of the day, dannyisme, explains how Jimmy is really helping:

4:40 PM on Wed Sep 10 2008, by Alaska Miller, 152 views, Comment
http://valleywag.com/5048212/dannyisme

Jimmy Wales, "punk capitalist"?

In a new book, The Pirate's Dilemma, author Matt Mason holds up geek heroes like Linus Torvalds and Jimmy Wales as icons of "punk capitalism." Given Wales's abject failure to profit from Wikipedia or his follow-on venture, Wikia, I'd say Mason has...

1:00 PM on Tue Jul 15 2008, by Owen Thomas, 405 views, Comment
http://valleywag.com/5025474/jimmy-wales-punk-capitalist

Jimmy Wales's founding fib

Who founded Wikipedia? Jimmy Wales likes to tell third-world denizens he did. Here's a clip from IJsbrand van Veelen's new documentary The Truth According To Wikipedia featuring Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger. Among Wikipedians, it's an old...

3:40 PM on Fri Apr 11 2008, by Nicholas Carlson, 841 views, Comment
http://valleywag.com/378949/jimmy-waless-founding-fib

Jimmy Wales flees Facebook

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been leaving Facebook groups at a prodigious rate over the past few days. Is it related to his recent relationship troubles or is he just cleaning house? Check out the screenshots below to see just how many groups...

3:10 PM on Wed Mar 5 2008, by Jordan Golson, 1,150 views, Comment
http://valleywag.com/364328/jimmy-wales-flees-facebook

Jimmy Wales quotes Ayn Rand at Boston event

A recent appearance by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was bookended by quotes from Ayn Rand, the founder of Objectivism. And tech glitches: "You'd think that a threat to Google could easily menace a laptop into submission, but apparently Jimmy just...

3:20 PM on Tue Sep 16 2008, by Owen Thomas, 862 views, Comment
http://valleywag.com/5050685/jimmy-wales-quotes-ayn-rand-at-boston-event

Jimmy Wales: "It's like being a regular rock star, except there's no sex"

"What's it like to be a famous guy on the Web?" Wallstrip host Lindsay Campbell asked Jimmy Wales in an interview last year. "Being an Internet rock star is like being a regular rock star, except there's no sex and drugs," Wales replies. We're...

3:40 PM on Wed Mar 5 2008, by Owen Thomas, 1,233 views, Comment
http://valleywag.com/364268/jimmy-wales-its-like-being-a-regular-rock-star-except-theres-no-sex

Is Matt Marshall the Jimmy Olsen of venture capital?

VentureBeat editor Matt Marshall does have a striking resemblance to Superman's Jimmy Olsen, as Jangl CEO Michael Cerda suggests. The analogy's even more apt if you compare Marshall to the Smallville version:

10:00 AM on Wed Feb 20 2008, by Owen Thomas, 382 views, Comment
http://valleywag.com/358705/is-matt-marshall-the-jimmy-olsen-of-venture-capital