geni wrote:
2009/12/15 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
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