The Internet is allowing for us to really experience people in some of the most distant places in the world - as other people just like us. So get to know people, seek out bloggers from a country you're kind of curious about. It's about building empathy and breaking through to the point of recognizing people as people.

Dialing down is not an option for me.

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.