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Earlier this week I wrote a blog post, “SEOs and Social Media - The New World is Not Big Enough” that took a shot or two at Wikipedia. Part of my post was based on concerns expressed in the SEO community. Other concerns I hold stem from my experience with the Open Directory Project (DMOZ), another enormous site that became a public institution and carried extraordinary weight with Google.
For whatever reasons, the article seems to have resonated with readers and it has been reproduced and reprinted in several other venues. I can’t be certain exactly how it got to the desktop of Wikipedia Administrator “Durova”, but the day after I published it on the Metamend Blog, Durova contacted me to arrange an interview.
We met the next day in Google Chat. (btw… I have a rave review of Google Chat I need to write one of these days. It is an excellent IM client to conduct interviews in.)
Though I figured our IM conversation would last about 60-minutes, we were still chatting two and a half hours later. The interview produced 13-pages (10 pt font) of direct notes and is far too long to reprint in this blog. I have printed a full transcript of the Durova interview and an accompanying article over at SiteProNews.com this morning.
