10 month ago
Linkorama : Google sees own shadow, jumps overboard - The question is, if this did succeed, would it contribute to building the ultimate web experience that we really want?
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Encouraging people to contribute knowledge - Further proof Google gets collective intelligence, but not collaborative intelligence. And they had to come up with something recommended ahead of Wikipedia.
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16 month ago
Linkorama : Old Revolutions Good, New Revolutions Bad - Clay's response to Gorman
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17 month ago
Linkorama : Technorati Authority and Rank - I guess blogrolls don't count
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27 month ago
Linkorama : Why believe Wikipedia? - The fact that Wikipedia encourages us to use these notices give us confidence that Wikipedia is putting our interests over its own.
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29 month ago
cameron : Edge - Brilliant stuff: "The beauty of the Internet is that it connects people. The value is in the other people. If we start to believe the Internet itself is an entity that has something to say, we're devaluing those people and making ourselves into idiots"
Linkorama : Digital Maoism - to read, a critique of Wikipedia
wearehugh : Edge - DIGITAL MAOISM
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30 month ago
Linkorama : The tyranny of Structurelessness - "In essence: stripping away formal and explicit rules from groups does not result in groups without power relations or hierachies. All it does is replace them with implicit, invisible and tacit forms of power relations - friendship networks, charisma, cha
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32 month ago
Linkorama : Wikipedia and open source - Lies, damn lies, and framing by blog
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34 month ago
Linkorama : Making Wikipedia better, Part II - I meant strangle as a complement
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34 month ago
Linkorama : Wikipedia, competition, and the future | InfoWorld | Column | 2006-01-04 | By Jon Udell - By "denatures wikipedia" I meant within the presented page. The community has the same reputation dynamics as open source.
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34 month ago
Linkorama : Wikipedia can be better - The first supposedly Rational Rant from Ratcliffe
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34 month ago
Linkorama : Wienberger on Wikipedia - The media were implicitly contrasting Wikipedia's credibility to their own. Ironically, the some of the media got the story fundamentally wrong, in tone and sometimes in substance.
plasticbag : Weinberger writes a really interesting and solid piece on why (and how) the Media gets Wikipedia wrong so often... - "Jimmy has been all over the news telling people that Wikipedia is not yet as reliable as the Britannica, that students shouldn't cite it, that you should take every article with a grain of salt."
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34 month ago
Linkorama : The Probabilistic Age - hese systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale.
deusx : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - "these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale."
jkottke : Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs - Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs: they're probabilistic systems "which sacrifice perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale".
Paul Hammond : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale
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34 month ago
Linkorama : There is no truth - I like this twist to the argument: it's not whether Wikipedia can get to Britannica's standard of quality; it's that we've been overestimating Britannica's quality all along.
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Linkorama : Masked Wikipedia Author Revealed - "We're still confused why Seigenthaler felt the need to spend so much time tracking down the person and then writing a public editorial about the issue when, instead, he could have just corrected the story."
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34 month ago
Linkorama : Jimmy Wales Interview post-Siegenthaler - the day after the Siegenthaler story came to an end with the "confession" of the errant poster -- Media Giraffe Project editor Bill Densmore interviewed WikiPedia founder Jimmy Wales at the non-profit website's small St. Petersburg, Fla., office.
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34 month ago
Rod Begbie : Internet encyclopaedias go head to head : Nature - Nature magazine performed a blind peer-review of several science topics in Wikipedia and Encyclopædia Britannica. Perhaps surprisingly, the number and type of errors in both were very similar, although the experts found the writing in Wikipedia to be [via] #
Linkorama : Internet encyclopaedias go head to head - Peer review proof point
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Can you trust Wikipedia? - I just want to thank the mainstream media for fact checking a few articles -- keep up the good work!
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Defining the competition - Last week, someone using a computer with an Internet address assigned to American Airlines edited Wikipedia to describe Southwest Airlines Co. as "a notoriously litigious company constantly seeking to change laws to gain an advantage." The phrases were de
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Peter Morville: the Tagsonomy interview - Last week I got the chance to talk to Peter Morville about his recent article Authority, his excellent new book Ambient Findability, and the future when everything will be taggable.
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37 month ago
Linkorama : Business blogging != executive blogging - Maybe I should stop
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39 month ago
Linkorama : Open source leadership - ... leadership is bottom-up, community and coordination oriented and not focused on the exercise of authority.
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plasticbag : Danah on academia and wikipedia - "Wikipedia is exceptionally valuable to read about multiple sides to a story, particularly in historical contexts, but i don't trust alternative histories any more than i trust privileged ones."
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plasticbag : PopCultureShock interviews Mark Millar - "You create these books in a bubble so when I heard from Sam Jackson's wife that he loves Ultimates or Affleck says he collects Marvel Knights Spider-Man or something I always feel like I'm getting Punk'd."
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