I have to say that I’m very disappointed in the Times’ article on Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales. The biggest fail is the headline. It reads “Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire,” but then never addresses how much money he actually makes from Wikipedia. Insane.

I guess the problem with this article is that it is a profile of the founder. The guy sounds like a bit of a dick, really. I didn’t really need to know about him.

I am, on the other hand, massively interested in Wikipedia. I remember when it was the punchline of an academic joke. Now, professors use it as much as anyone to look up the name of the ambassor to Pakistan, the birthday of Hulk Hogan, and Queen Elizabeth’s second cousin. It’s one of the few places on the web, where the democratic promise still lives. God, I could gush for hours about the wonders of wikipedia.