A suggestion for Jimmy Wales‘s list of things that need to be free: Free identity! (JNG) “Free” in this case has a different meaning than it does than it does with the other items on Jimbo’s list. We need to free our digital identities from the organizational silos that currently collect and control information [...]
Thoughts on Jimmy Wales‘s keynote at Wikimania. Read Ross Mayfield‘s post for a more extensive summary: (JN8) “1. Free the encyclopedia!” Jimbo considers the English and German Wikipedias “done,” and he expects the rest to be complete in about 10 years. His metric is 250,000 pages of content. (JN9) “3. Free the curriculum!” [...]
When I first met Christine Peterson (now a Blue Oxen Associates advisor), she told me the story about coining “Open Source.” The sign of a good name, she explained, is when people naturally start using it on their own. At a meeting of developers and evangelists in early 1998, rather than argue strongly in favor [...]
(JMN) Sunday evening, August 7, 2005: (JMQ) Me: I took an incriminating photo of Ross Mayfield at Brotfabrik last night. Should I post it on my blog? (JMO) Sunir Shah: Hell yeah. (JMP) Sorry, Ross. Sunir made me do it. (JMR)
[I originally wrote this two days after the conference, but because of limited Internet access the past few days, I couldn't post it until today. -EEK] (JME) Wikimania is over. What a whirlwind three days. I’m so glad I came early for Hacking Days, because it gave me a chance to meet key members [...]
