Jimmy Wales – Free Speech, Free Minds and Free Markets

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales joins journalist Christopher Lydon to address the direction of web 2.0 and how Objectivist philosophy guides his vision.Across the globe we are building, editing, and contributing to a growing body of knowledge and tools at everyone’s fingertips. Volunteers in leaderless organizations contribute to online initiatives and articles. Software developers spend their free time collaborating with complete strangers.Amazingly, these efforts are creating products of extraordinary quality, sometimes better than that of large for-profit organizations.Why do we do it? Why does it work?

Video at FORA.tv

December 11, 2008 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. Bibliofuture says:
    December 11, 2008 at 5:13 am

    Role of Librarians
    Below the video is links to specific parts of the presentation. Question 9 is about the changing role of librarians.

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  2. Bibliofuture says:
    December 11, 2008 at 5:46 am

    Jimmy Wales on Democratizing Search Engines
    Jimmy Wales on Democratizing Search Engines. This part of the larger talk that is linked in the main article. This is a direct link to the discussion about democratizing search engines.

    Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales discusses his latest project Wikia Search, an open source search engine designed to compete with Google.He explains that Google results are generated using a secret algorithm, and argues it should be the users who decide which sites are most relevant.

    http://fora.tv/2008/09/11/Jimmy_Wales_on_Democratizing_Search_Engines

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