Jimmy Wales's lecture was articulate and funny, but it seemed like he was only here to drum up publicity for his latest venture, Wikia. Anyway, I (along with a couple of others - Kaul and Rukku) accosted him backstage as he was leaving the stage, and after saying a few words about how Wikipedia has really helped our 'Quizzing Club' here, I managed to get a photo with him...or rather, in the same frame as him:
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I didn't like the way Mr. Wales was treated as a God in our campus after a significant amount of Internet folks consider him as evil. On a sidenote, I see the response for his speech as the changing trend of increasing interest people on campus over internet enabled services and technologies
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