[Foundation-l] Jimbo Wales = Sergey Brin = Bill Gates

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Fri Dec 2 19:22:21 UTC 2005


Sabine Cretella wrote:

> Please note that negative articles are not always really negative. 
> People react more to negative news than to positive ones - so having 
> negative news means that more people will look at "that page" 
> mentioned in an article - and if that page is good they will say to 
> themselves "I don't know what this guy has ... it is ok" ... so the 
> negative news has/had a positive effect in the end. 

It's a reminder of the old quote, (with apologies that I can't CITE the 
source. :-) ), "You can say anything you want about me as long as you 
spell my name correctly."

Ec




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