User:Jonathan Stokes

Menu User page Talk page Sandbox About Me I co-founded ValueWiki which was bought by Wikia in 2010. I spend a fair amount of time at purple.com. I make movies. My Wikipedia edit count is 1800. My ValueWiki edit count is 4000. My Wikipedia Contributions Wikipedia Articles I've Started Business GigaOM * Top 50 Weblog by Technorati Rank, global monthly readership of 500,000 Nothing Real * Software Company purchased by Apple Computer in 2002 Marvin Girouard * CEO, Pier 1 Imports Harwinton Capital * Current Company run by Apple Computer Board Member Jerry York (businessman) Micro Warehouse * Defunct Company run by Apple Computer Board Member Jerry York (businessman) Rent.com * Largest online rental listing service, acquired by EBay in 2005 Alan N. Braverman * Senior Executive Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of The Walt Disney Company Thomas O. Staggs * Senior Executive Vice President and CFO of The Walt Disney Company Jim Donald * President and CEO of Starbucks Michael S. Malone * Author of "Infinite Loop" about Apple Inc. Social Issues Rampart Scandal Template:Rampart Scandal Rafael Pérez (police officer) David Mack (police officer) Kevin Gaines (police officer) Javier Ovando Concepts Aesthetic distance Ludonarrative Philosophers Albinus (philosopher) Robert Alyngton * Forerunner of linguistic philosophy Abu'l Hasan Muhammad Ibn Yusuf al-'Amiri * Attempted to address the Problem of free will in 10th century Islamic thought Category:1st-century philosophers Category:3rd-century philosophers Category:4th-century philosophers Category:9th-century philosophers Rogers Albritton Musicians Daniel Gottlob Türk Classical composer Marie Wieck Romantic era pianist, singer, and composer Jean Louis Gobbaerts Romantic era concert pianist and composer Nicolai Soloviev Russian composer and teacher Leopold von Sonnleithner Viennese lawyer and patron of Beethoven, Schubert, Czerny, and Grillparzer Theodor Döhler German composer and pianist Ferdinand Schubert Composer and brother of Franz Schubert Artur Lemba Notable Estonian Composer and pianist Miscellaneous Category:Pitzer College alumni Category:Claremont McKenna College alumni Category:Scripps College alumni Techcrunch Compromise Wikipedians by Political Party Whisk (ballroom dance) Natural spin turn Prelude Op. 28, No. 16 Prelude Op. 28, No. 15 Prelude Op. 28, No. 4 Prelude Op. 28, No. 20 Notable Contributions Pier 1 Imports Jerry York (businessman) TechCrunch Alcinous (philosopher) Friedrich Wieck István Thomán Carl Filtsch Carl Czerny Carl Maria von Weber Samuel Maykapar Anton Diabelli Muzio Clementi Mullagori Userboxes This user maintains a blog at The Jon Stokes Blog. en This user is a native speaker of English. This user enjoys cooking. This user enjoys photography. This user runs Mac OS X. This user is a musician. This user is a Fallibilist. This user is a libertarian. This user plays Chess. Barnstars The Original Barnstar For your civility in the Mediation Cabal case, WP:MEDCABAL/TechCrunch, and for helping to solve an important dispute efficiently and sucessfully - and making my Mediation easier :) - I, Anthony, award Jonathan Stokes the Original Barnstar. Well done! Kind regards, anthonycfc [talk] Awarded: 02:42, Saturday March 10 2012 (UTC) The Original Barnstar For the informative series on the Rampart Scandal. -badmachine 23:02, 11 September 2011 (UTC) Why I Edit Wikipedia I support Wikipedia, both financially and temporally, because I believe in the democratization of knowledge. I also believe Wikipedia is one of the greatest collectivist experiments in human history. In one decade, Wikipedians have written 3,892,777 articles on the English language Wikipedia. That's the equivalent of 500 Encyclopedia Britainnicas. This feat required 16,416,543 contributors for the English language Wikipedia alone. By contrast, the Great Pyramid at Giza required a labor force of only 30,000. Active versions of Wikipedia exist in 256 other languages as well. All 16,416,543 Wikipedians performed their astonishing amount of work without pay. They voluntarily gave up all copyrights to their work, freely sharing it with the world. ...And were forced to work cooperatively with strangers scattered across the earth, all of whom are endowed with the power to edit one another. All of this defies most economists' expectations of what motivates and incentivizes humans. It should not have worked. But some how it is working. And we have this new model for accomplishing projects on a massive scale, utilizing the collective brain power of the entire world.