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Social software questions authority

A semi-rant based on a session at IL2006
The Scholarship in Chaos! panel never got to where I thought it would go — brainy brawl over things like open access, participatory information architecture, folksonomies, controlled vocabularies, peer review, and the nature of expertise and authority. (I did leave before the very end, so maybe it happened, [...]


Second Life is not just gambling and porn

More adventures at IL2006
The Second Life Library 2.0 panel gave one of the best (and shortest) explanations of Second Life I’ve heard so far: “Its a community, not like a game with a point.”
It might not have a point, but it does have momentum: it recently crossed the one million residents mark, companies like American [...]


“Informed by human judgement”: Google isn’t God

Adventures at IL2006
I went to was Chris Sherman’s Search Engine Report session this morning, where early on he repeated the question (first?) posed in the headline of a NYT piece a few years ago: “Is Google God?”
I don’t worship Google. (Passionate obsession and engagement with the web does not equal membership in the Church of [...]


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