In praise of Wikimedia Strategy, Chris Grams, hypocrite Options

[thekohser]

This is a particularly predictable publication.

Chris Grams is a partner at New Kind, a strategic communications, design, and innovation firm. Previously, Chris spent 10 years at Red Hat, where he played a "key role" in building the Red Hat brand and "culture". (See where this is headed?) Mr. Grams also blogs about brand, "community", and culture at Dark Matter Matters.

If you need to reach Chris Grams, he asks that you contact him via Twitter. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/wacko.gif)

Also, if you post a comment that is the least bit critical of the Wikimedia Strategy process, Chris Grams will delete it for you.

Even though his blog post praises the "strategic planning process in all of its transparent, open glory".

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Do you think there's some sort of school or clinic where these free culture Kool-Aid drinkers go to get the skepticism scooped right out of their heads, only to be replaced with a healthy clump of hypocrisy?

[John Limey]

Do you think there's some sort of school or clinic where these free culture Kool-Aid drinkers go to get the skepticism scooped right out of their heads, only to be replaced with a healthy clump of hypocrisy?

In my experience, these types are actually some of the most skeptical people around, except when it comes to their own pet causes (Wikipedia, Linux, etc.). Thus the same people who are Wikipedia's biggest fan are often the ones who regard everything published by the mainstream media with deep suspicion. I think the skepticism is not removed, but rather transferred from the objects of most people's skepticism (Wikipedia, etc.) to the things of which most people are much less skeptical. The overall amount of skepticism, I think, remains roughly constant.