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Friday, 19th March 2010

Wikipedia Co-Founder, Jimmy Wales Speaks in London About Google/China and Traditional Media

Jimmy Wales spoke at the MediaGuardian’s Changing Media Summit 2010 in London, UK.

On Google and China

Wales likened Google’s position up ‘til recently (agreeing to censor results in order to make in-roads) to how businesses regarded “apartheid South Africa” in the 80s - a reluctant embrace, but involvement nonetheless. “I know Larry and Sergei and they’re a little bit naive. They are idealistic and very, very wealthy - and quite young. They don’t need another few billion from China.” So now Wales, whose Wikipedia there was blocked for a time, ‘very strongly supports Google” in what may be a principled retreat from China.

On Traditional Media

“There are things communities do better than the traditional model ... The best of the political bloggers are easily the equal of the opinion columnists at the New York Times (NYSE: NYT). I don’t see the added value there and question whether a newspaper should be paying large sums of money for that anymore.

More Traditional Media

Large segments [of traditional journalism] have basically been cut out - that’s a mistake because there is a demand for that information. A lot of the moves that have been made have been cuts in the wrong areas.

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