Calacanis' new ad fervour

Rebuke to Jason Calacanis' wanting to smother Wikipedia with advertisements. (See his post; I was the second person to comment on this now-hot post... just a little geek/ego moment.)

Not everyone is as commercial as you, Mr. Calacanis. Jimbo Wales has — over and over again — stated his view that Wikipedia will be ad-free as long as he is in charge. No matter how much it wracks the brain and nerves of you, me, and anyone else, he seems to have his mind made up. In addition, if AOL or anyone else were given special treatment of a button or leaderboard, that could strike a blow to Wikipedia's objectivity and already criticized editorial standards. You add adverts into the mix of objectivity and content questions for Wikipedia, then you won't be getting money from the ads because Wikipedia would be dismissed by critics, loose members and visitors, and just mirrored by some other foundation (GFL license).

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