Jimmy Wales wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 09/01/2008, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
better than many professional media people would have
Don't you think that by now, with all the interviews and features he has done, Jimbo *is* effectively a professional media person?
Indeed, as far as I can tell, these kind of things appear to be Jimbo's full time job these days.
Sadly, at least half-time. The other half of my time, I am answering emails. And the other half I am working on the design of the search project. And the other half... and... :)
I happened to accidentally stumble across the Jimbo interview on BBC News 24 when it was aired 31st December. And (I'm not just being nice cos he's listening) I think Jimmy did answer the questions well and certainly did Wikipedia no harm at all. As for the public toilet comparison, I thought that was humourous more than anything else, certainly attracting the viewer's attention and after all, any publicity is good publicity. In summary, don't worry too much about PR, I feel there is no issue with what Jimbo said in PR terms whatsoever. :)
G Donato