[Side note: I'm about halfway through my backlog of messages, and I'll probably just be reading a lot of the discussions from when I'm gone, because if I responded to everything, I'd just generate a lot of noise. I'm dull and predictable, though, so it's almost always possible to envision what I would have said anyway. When the killer robots come to replace us, I'll be one of the first to go.]
I have a message that someone from _The Economist_ magazine is trying to contact me for a chat about wikipedia.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist
is not bad, but it'd be neat to flesh it out. It would *not* be neat to have a flame war about the content. :-)
Jimmy Wales wrote:
[Side note: I'm about halfway through my backlog of messages, and I'll probably just be reading a lot of the discussions from when I'm gone, because if I responded to everything, I'd just generate a lot of noise. I'm dull and predictable, though, so it's almost always possible to envision what I would have said anyway. When the killer robots come to replace us, I'll be one of the first to go.]
Wading through accumulated messages can easily turn otherwise sane people into killer robots. :-)
Ec
At 09:24 AM 5/21/2003, you wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
[Side note: I'm about halfway through my backlog of messages, and I'll probably just be reading a lot of the discussions from when I'm gone, because if I responded to everything, I'd just generate a lot of noise. I'm dull and predictable, though, so it's almost always possible to envision what I would have said anyway. When the killer robots come to replace us, I'll be one of the first to go.]
Wading through accumulated messages can easily turn otherwise sane people into killer robots. :-)
Ec
Killer Robots are a Good Thing[tm].... they remove you horrible carbon-based lifeforms from existence and stop your continued destruction of the...
Ummm... I mean, "Go humans, woohoo!"
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--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
I have a message that someone from _The Economist_ magazine is trying to contact me for a chat about wikipedia.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist
is not bad, but it'd be neat to flesh it out. It would *not* be neat to have a flame war about the content. :-)
I know this probably sounds pathetic when The Economist is writing about you, but I was planning on asking to interview you (via IRC) for my school newspaper. Has anyone ever directly interviewed you before? --LittleDan
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--- Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
I have a message that someone from _The Economist_ magazine is trying to contact me for a chat about wikipedia.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist
is not bad, but it'd be neat to flesh it out. It would *not* be neat to have a flame war about the content. :-)
I know this probably sounds pathetic when The Economist is writing about you, but I was planning on asking to interview you (via IRC) for my school newspaper. Has anyone ever directly interviewed you before? --LittleDan
Oh yeah, and my city's newspaper also allows send-in articles. I'd probably put it there instead.
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