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Sunday, January 18, 2004 |
 NYTimes. When given a choice between an unnamed Democrat and Mr. Bush, 43 percent of the registered voters polled said they would vote for Mr. Bush, while 45 percent said they would vote for the Democrat. NOTE: What is also interesting are Bush's huge negatives relative to other first term presidents running for re-election.
8:07:25 AM 
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So far, Wikipedia has been able to raise only a small amount in donations. Pretty poor. If it was a commercial venture, it would be on the way to a huge payout as soon as the portals begin to recognize its value (and this will happen, it really is great). Say the value of Wikipedia was worth $200 m (not unthinkable given its value and the traffic it could command with the right placement). With ~194,000 articles written, that would value the effort at ~$1,000 a page. At $20 m, that's still $100 a page.
NOTE: one thing it shouldn't do is allow Google or some other portal to license its content for free (or anything less than a $20 m a year donation) and put ads on it.
7:38:05 AM
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Wikipedia is getting so good its scary. A true resource. Very cool to watch it go from 0 to light speed in 2 short years. Suggestion for Google: dump the dmoz open directory project (which is branded by Google as the Google Web Directory) and replace it with Wikipedia.
The relationship between Google and dmoz is really strange for a company about to go public at ~$14 b +. Google has been very slow to update the directory and AOL/TW doesn't look like it is putting any resources into it.
6:55:35 AM
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Don Park has the same addiction I have to vivid historical fiction. I would add that there are SF series that are nearly as good (like Moorcock's Elric series and Zelazny's Amber). Moorcock is expensive, Zelazny isn't.
6:53:17 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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