geni wrote:
2009/12/15 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
Craig Newmark's on the WMF advisory board. Craigslist is already famous. I really think it's pushing us forward, not the other way around.
Craig Newmark has around 300K google results. Jimbo is at half a million. Craigslist is at about 65 million wikipedia is at about 300 million. For groups that almost entirely exist online that's a fair solid way of showing which is more significant. In terms of using fame to push us forwards about the only web company owners who might be able to do that would be Mark Zuckerberg and google's co-founders.
That's a strangely limited notion of who has the capability to help - only people who are quantitatively more famous than us? For a project that's built around lots and lots of individual contributions (whether we're talking content, finances, or publicity), none of them especially huge in the overall scheme of things, it seems completely backwards to suggest that such things are useless if they don't dwarf what has already been achieved.
--Michael Snow