It's the Wiki Wiki thing

What happens when you 1) were thinking about stupid songs that you can't get out of your head, 2) are listening to the audio of Jimmy Wales talking about Wikipedia in Boston (audio and text transcripts here), 3) are chatting to wikipedians on IRC and 4) happen to have Garage Band open? This (800K mp3 / 870K ogg).

PS I would like to add that many wikipedians contributed links, sounds and feedback in the creation of this piece. It's amazing what you can do as a community. ;-P Just kidding, I can not take credit for the entire work, but I have no one to blame but myself.

UPDATE: Eric Haller just cleaned it up for me and now it sounds much better. 963K mp3

5 Comments

01. nw - Jan 24, 2005 - 16:01

"quota exceeded."

Is there anywhere else you can get the audio of Jimmy Wales talking about Wikipedia?

02. eric - Jan 24, 2005 - 16:25

pure rock!

03. Jason D- - Jan 25, 2005 - 06:07

Ha! Very nice. In a super dorky sorta way.

04. Andy Carvin - Jan 25, 2005 - 09:20

Too funny; I was playing around with the Creative Commons/Wired CD and discovered that the word "wikipedia" is great for mixing with the Beastie Boys:

http://www.andycarvin.com/podcasts/wikiwikiwikiwikipedia.wav

As for Jimmy's presentation, you can find a podcast of it on my blog:

http://mobcasting.blogspot.com

05. kana - Jan 26, 2005 - 12:41

I'm loving this!

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