links for 2008-01-20
Written on January 20, 2008
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summary of major points of criticism towards Wikipedia
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un_wiki gets quotes from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia's Deletion Log and republishes them almost in real time
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good thoughts from Michel Bauwers from p2p foundation
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... our mutual dependence has unexpected consequences, one of which is that if people do not make decisions independently ... then predicting hits is not only difficult but actually impossible, no matter how much you know about individual tastes
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while quality stories still have a marginally better chance of rising to the top, “follow the leader†effect means that users are more likely to amplify the decisions of other users than go against them, even if the stories being Dugg aren’t very go
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data from 2006: "...of all stories that make it to the front page of Digg, more than 20% come from a select group of 20 users"...
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summary of the 2006 Science paper by Duncan Watts et al on how feedback from peers determines the success of songs, books, etc
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"It also leads to interesting questions for those building social sites. What data do we aggregate? What should we display? Where? What influence will it have on the future behavior of those who see it? Does it influence the quality of content? How so?…
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"As Digg gets more and more popular, it will (as it already has) start to attract more attention. More attention will mean more people trying to take advantage of the system, and more attempts at Digg trying to give the appearance of keeping things fair"
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a Slideshare presentation from the Social IA Workshop at the IA Summit
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MEadows started with the observation that there are levers, or places within a complex system (such as a firm, a city, an economy, a living being, an ecosystem, an ecoregion) where a "small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything"
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good summary with links
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Whoshouldyouvotefor.com is designed to help you see how closely the candidates for the Republican and Democratic nominations for the 2008 US Presidential Elections match your political views and the personal characteristics you look for in a candidate
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"Scoble:...Truth is I missed that story because I was busy with CES and MacWorld and Fast Company stuff". This almost sounds like "we missed the Holocaust because of the Munich Olympics"...
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NGOs in India are catching on to the YouTube phenomenon by uploading videos about themselves and causes they propagate, on the site.
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