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Gel speakers - Jimmy Wales and Barry Schwartz
Aug 14, 2006
A double mention of Gel speakers in the Sunday Times yesterday: Jimmy Wales (speaking at euroGel in a couple of weeks and previously at Gel Gel '05) and Barry Schwartz Gel '05.
See video clips of both on the Gel videos page.
From Industrial Art Illuminates Life - New York Times
Mr. Wales, the founder of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, who has become an unlikely lightning rod for the quality-versus-quantity debate over information on the Internet, is a figure out of a 1930's Frank Capra film, a likable guy with a Southern twang whose simple social experiment has run away with him.
So Mr. Wales works at keeping it simple and staying dedicated to the Wikipedia ideal of information that is helpful, more or less accurate and "good enough," to borrow a term from Barry Schwartz, the author of The Paradox of Choice
P.S. Wikipedians, please help expand the Gel conference entry at Wikipedia.
