I recently read
this article that talks about a recent debacle on
digg. A quick summary: Digg (like
reddit) is a link sharing system. Anonymous users give links they like a quick "thumbs-up" and a heuristic is used to rank links based on popularity/freshness. Recently, digg users voted up a story about digg IP being stolen by another web site. That
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I'm glad you replied, because I'm really starting to like this idea of Web 2.0 as community instead of content, and to see other people thinking similar things has me jazzed. Remember how Web 1.0 was going to foster community?
Gah, too interesting, too much to write. Enjoy your coffee ;)
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Damn, I should check wether I can change the formatting before I post this article. I don't want another "fact-check" response ;)
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"they inferred too much from the assumptions."
ass-u-me!
"Not without knowing something about the voters, and I think that gets to the root of the issue."
Maybe this is where a concept like Identity 2.0** comes in ... a way to actually know who the voters / updaters / writers / commentators etc. are. Er, quickly and easily and summarizably.
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I thought I'd post this comment, so that the hanging note would not end up haunting you, gentle reader.
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