Three Monkeys Online

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This week Google’s share price hit a record high this week, reaching $584.39 a pop (according to this impartial source), giving the “do no evil” outfit a market capitalization of 182.41 billion, roughly 9 times that of General Motors.The thing is, along with Google, the site I probably most visit is Wikipedia, the exemplar of Web 2.0 that I still think is wonderful despite the tedious sniping. Moreover, Wikipedia’s not-for-profit status places it in an antipodal position to Google, which is relentlessly tagging with ads every conceivable byte of content. (And Wikipedia’s potential market value must run into the hundreds of millions in an environment in which YouTube was bought for $1.65 billion.)Now, assuming the following question should be considered in the light of being remembered by posterity–money not being important in the afterlife/black void awaiting all carbon-based lifeforms–which site would you most like to have founded?Another tech-related blip-thought: would paid-content on the web have been accepted if the U.S. had television licences?Promised views on The Shock Doctrine later this week, honestly.