Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Walesis an American Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and the for-profit Wikia web hosting company...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth7 August 1966
CountryUnited States of America
views use sole
You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
trying rational approach
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
tools networking social-network
Wikis and social networking are just tools.
done world speech
The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.
voice people bags
People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
media mainstream backgrounds
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
apples microsoft world
One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.
country people empathy
The Internet is allowing for us to really experience people in some of the most distant places in the world - as other people just like us. So get to know people, seek out bloggers from a country you're kind of curious about. It's about building empathy and breaking through to the point of recognizing people as people.
may matter levels
We don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying.
google ifs
If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.
impact people being-ignored
We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.
worry world censorship
I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
people groups breaking-down
Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.
creating people attention
When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.