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About this episode

Following Cory Doctorow's talk about 2 weeks ago on, "The State of the Copy Fight", Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia gave a lecture during Evan Korth’s Computer’s and Society course at NYU on "Free culture, transparency, and search.” his for-profit company Wikia and its three areas of operation: Library, Open Serving, and Search. Given the audiences familiarity with Wikipedia, Wales skipped most of his prepared speech on that and after he gave a brief background on open source software, how it works, and the fact that you can be commercially successful doing and using it, he spent most of his time talking about Wikia. Below is the full video of the talk (about 25 minutes followed by 25 minutes of questions, the beginning is a little jumpy but it settles down, sorry) followed by my notes from the talk.

• Release Date

  Feb 1, 2007

• Runtime

  55:58