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http://www.ted.com Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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  • ME JIMMY WALES. U GIBE MONEY PLZ OR I REPORT U. AHUEHAUEHAUHAHUEHAUEHUAHUEHAUH­E

  • I don't know about other people, but I am so thankful to the creators and employees/volunteers of google and wikipedia. They have revolutionized the way people (and myself!) are able to function. I have no words to describe the immensity of what they have done.

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  • Homosexual activists understand the power of words.

    Please visit my channel to watch a one-minute video clip in which popular atheist author Richard Dawkins admits that homosexual activists "hijacked the word 'gay'".

    The word "homosexual" is more appropriate and accurate because it, unlike the word "gay", actually describes the behavior/attraction/relationsh­ip being discussed.

    The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.

  • Yay! Free text books in the distant future. Yay!

  • Is he a bazillionaire?

  • I really like watching these TED talks.

  • @clydedsouza46

    this argument doesn't make any sense. What is he some kind of God?

  • @FireInTheSole

    The internet already is the biggest source of information. However the wiki format has some really worthy derivatives hahahahahahah!

  • @VonManavis Maintaining the biggest source of information on the internet, completely free of charge, is not enough for you?

  • Mister Wikipedia. If you create some jobs, you might start to mean something to me.

  • @imRyRy fuck oooooooff

  • Stop begging for money, billionaire. It's shameful.

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