Wikipedia etc.

After one's working day is spent - trying desperately -- in vain - to fix either the phone line or the broadband cable to get some work done - the day in question being the first day back in more than a month - by the evening - one isnt too inclined to put up majorly masalafied posts like rad descriptions of Scarlett Johanssen's backside or reviews of soccer matches.

Heres something thats worth a minute or two:

"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge — Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia"

Heres an appeal hes put up - asking for donations - " An appeal from Jimmy Wales "

I am seriously tempted to drop a few $$$ in - considering the inordinate amount of wikiing one does these days - its one of those things - like Thayir saadam & Vadu maangai - that one cant live without.

I cant help but wonder - why doesnt he syndicate Adverts on wikipedia ?? I am sure they can rig it up with google ads and with the kind of specialization they bring in to contextual Ads and stuff - im pretty damn sure that wikipedia will more than make the 3 million dollars it needs a year - heck, maybe a lot more than that.

Take these blokes at google for eg. - they are as commercial as they come - AND everybit lifechanging with the kind of things they come up with - Google, Gmail, News, Reader, Gtalk - and Google Apps - (for this princely sum of 10 dollars a year - i deploy gmail, docs, sites, gtalk - the works across upto 200 users - near unlimited space - on my own domain- i do this with GREAT results in our own company) - all of it done with a commercial motive by the good folks over at google. No ?

Wikimedia foundation ought to ask Eric Schmidt to sit on their board and make them some money on the amazing franchise they've built up.

Heck, if they fucken charge 20 dollars a year for unlimited access per computer - they'll fucken take in cash by the jumbo jet load !

*sigh* i am not really in mood to stay up.

Paul Theroux becons.