this is fascinating - I had no idea this was true. Where are the research links to support this assertion, though?
This link has been bookmarked by 70 people . It was first bookmarked on 07 Jun 2006, by Erik Stattin.
-
31 Oct 11
-
02 Oct 11
-
10 Mar 10
-
three types of authority (traditional, rational-legal, charismatic)
-
Authority derives from the information architecture, visual design, governance, and brand of the Wikipedia, and from widespread faith in intellectual honesty and the power of collective intelligence.
-
Wikipedia doesn't beat Britannica because it has better folksonomies. It wins because it's more findable
-
free tagging
-
In today's Google economy, we are increasingly becoming our own authority.
-
-
02 Mar 10
Adrienne Michettian interesting article about the philosophy of folksonomy, taxonomy, and tagsonomy -- the difference between them and the arguments of using metadata as authority status in the web. This is now a dated article, but gives insight to how we structure and organize information within designs
design tags folksonomy tagsonomy taxonomy architecture authority tagging
-
Wikipedia doesn't beat Britannica because it has better folksonomies. It wins because it's more findable.
-
Wikipedia has a traditional information architecture (with strong design conventions and a fixed left-hand navigation bar) and a traditional governance model
-
Google. After all, Larry and Sergey were the first to capitalize on folksonomies in the 1990s with the advent of the PageRank algorithm
-
- It's the Findability, Stupid!
- The Revolution is Multi-Algorithmic.
-
the authority of the masses can redefine the aboutness of the object,
-
when it comes to findability or re-findability, stacked up against Google and Google Images and Google Desktop, they barely merit attention.
-
Add Sticky Note
- Anchoring. When considering a decision, we are unduly influenced by the first information we find.
- Confirmation. Through selective search and perception, we subconsciously seek data that supports our existing point of view, and avoid contradictory evidence.
"unbounded irrationality" is a more fair and balanced description of human psychology and behavior. Well-documented decision making traps include:
-
Add Sticky Notestruggle to reconcile traditional notions of education and objectivity and authority with the constructivist web of social facts and collective intelligence where folksonomies flourish and the truth is a virus of many colors. I can hardly wait.
-
This is what we are doing now, and this is what Clay Shirky writes about extensively.
-
-
-
04 Nov 08
-
19 Sep 08
-
05 Jan 08
Olivier Le DeuffRéflexion de Peter Morville sur la notion d'autorité déformée par la blogosphère
-
10 Dec 07
-
20 Nov 07
-
17 Nov 07
-
26 Oct 07
Roberto UEMPapaer about authority in folksonomies, wikipedia, web, etc
-
19 Oct 07
ross harleyI have a problem with authority. It's not that I'm independent, insubordinate, and contrarian. I am, but that's not my problem. My problem is with the rising abuse of the word amongst bloggers, wikipedians, folksonomists, and other social software activis
-
07 Aug 07
-
13 Jun 07
M C MorganA look at Wikipedia, folksonomy, and shifts in authority that come with the move away from print: "The real upheaval lies just ahead, as a generation of school kids (and their teachers and librarians) struggle to reconcile traditional notions of education
IA findability authority authenticity authorship web2.0 folksonomy tagging
-
14 May 07
-
03 May 07
Andre MalheiroLarry and Sergey were the first to capitalize on folksonomies in the 1990s with the advent of the PageRank algorithm which uses links as indicators of authority and aboutness.
-
27 Mar 07
Mark pearsonconcerned with the credibility of information. Refers to wikipedia, folksonomy etc
-
13 Feb 07
-
01 Dec 06
-
16 Nov 06
-
25 Oct 06
-
29 Aug 06
-
05 Aug 06
-
26 Jun 06
-
17 Jun 06
Geoffrey Bilderthe rising abuse of the word amongst bloggers, wikipedians, folksonomists, and other social software activists
-
07 Jun 06
-
28 Apr 06
-
19 Mar 06
-
14 Mar 06
Gordon RossBut then, authority was appropriated by the Technorati mob, where it swiftly lost definition in a tangled tag soup of popularity, power, trust, credibility, and relevance. These words were tossed around indiscriminately in a Bacchanalian festival of seman
-
09 Mar 06
-
21 Feb 06
-
25 Nov 05
-
18 Nov 05
-
14 Nov 05
-
13 Nov 05
-
. But when Tim O'Reilly, the publisher behind the lemur and polar bear books, starts predicting the death of taxonomy, it's time to set the record straight.
-
-
11 Nov 05
-
10 Nov 05
-
04 Nov 05
-
28 Oct 05
-
24 Oct 05
-
22 Oct 05
-
21 Oct 05
-
17 Oct 05
kantergreat article on information literacy and Web 2.0 stuff like wikis - for educators, librarians, etc
article informationdesign folksonomy socialsoftware tagging linkblog net2
-
15 Oct 05
-
14 Oct 05
-
13 Oct 05
-
12 Oct 05
-
champignonauthority, wikipedia, tagging, the death of taxonomy has been grossly exaggerated, peter morville
-
11 Oct 05
Are Halland"You see, tags are only the visible, superficial symbols of a much deeper, more interesting revolution in findability and authority." (Peter Morville )
Public Stiky Notes
Page Comments
Would you like to comment?
Join Diigo for a free account, or sign in if you are already a member.