QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Mon 10th May 2010, 8:57am)
It seems certain that the 'friend' that Wales brought to the London meetup yesterday was from the London firm Freud Communications, which specialises in PR and image consultancy and that sort of thing. They have (or rather had) a very close relationship with the NuLab administration.
Why would Jimbo be hanging around with these people? Very expensive people, I assume.
Thanks for Tarantino for noting that citical comment and tracking down that very revealing IP.
QUOTE(Milton)
Fascinating! So as I read you, we can with reasonable certainty conclude that Jimbo cannot have posted from that IP address by simply using COLT somewhere else in the UK. He's posting from a block assigned permanently to Freud, and while the IPs may rotate fromwhat within that, if they come out to the net at 80.169.89.66, as Jimbo's just did, they have to go IN from a computer connecting to the net via a Freud-owned company server. Which would mean that Jimbo at least was in the Freud company offices someplace, using their WiFi from his laptop to access the net from their company.
I think Tarantino is right-- this sort of doesn't pass the sniff test for somebody who has been up on their high horse about paid editing on WP. Particularly not with a firm that has already been caught doing it wrong.
So Jimbo's talking to a really big PR firm in London, one that has already been caught getting paid to edit articles for clients on WP years ago (yeah, sure, they've stopped doing that, I bet). So, do we think Jimbo's in their offices to do some kind of business with them? It's not like WMF to pay money to anybody if they can get it for free or by trading something for it. What sort of informal deal do you suppose WMF and Jimbo are doing with Freud?
It's probably what we think it is. Jimbo being given the assignment to use some of the millions in donated WMF money, to polish up the public WP image which has been totally trashcanned, in no small part by his own "non-negotiable policies." Nice work if you can get it.
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Jimmy Wales was recently in London to give the keynote speech at
The Guardian’s Changing Media Summit Who but Jimbo could standing there giving a keynote speech at a media summit, and claim what he's saying is done with "quiet humility." (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/blink.gif) Jimbo, if you want to keep quiet, you should keep quiet. And forget about the humility part altogether if you accept an engagement like THAT.