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Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy. - By Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine

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people are catching up to the idea that Wikipedia is a force for good, there are still huge misconceptions about what makes the encyclopedia tick. While Wikipedia does show the creative potential of online communities, it's a mistake to assume the site owes its success to the wisdom of the online crowd.
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- f Web democracy, places built by millions of Web users who all act as writers, editors, and voters
- undemocratic
- social-bookmarking hub where people submit stories and rate others' submissions; the most popular links gravitate to the site's front page. The site's founders have never hidden that they use a "secret sauce"—a confidential algorithm that's tweaked
- is largely run by 100 people.
- Digg tweaked its secret sauce, top contributors noticed a decline in influence—fewer of their submissions became top stories.
- Digg and Wikipedia, small groups of users have outsized authority
- uthority is both organic and institutionalized.
- elected site administrators
- Digg, active users have more of a de facto authority over the site's goings-on
- oligarchies
- Digg and Wikipedia's elite users aren't chosen by a corporate board of directors or by divine right. They're the people who participate the most
- eople who've made more than 10,000 edits add nearly twice as many words to Wikipedia as they delete. By contrast, those who've made fewer than 100 edits are the only group that deletes more words than it adds. A small number of people are writing the articles, it seems, while less-frequent users are given the tasks of error correction and typo fixing.

Grand Text Auto » Expressive Processing: An Experiment in Blog-Based Peer Review

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digital fictions and computer games
Blogging has already changed how I work as a scholar and creator of digital media. Reading blogs started out as a way to keep up with the field between conferences — and I soon realized that blogs also contain raw research, early results, and other useful information that never gets presented at conferences.
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- Expressive Processing
- Expressive Processing
- Expressive Processing
- Doug Sery, my editor at the MIT Press, brought up the question of who would peer review the Expressive Processing manuscript.
- engages projects from the history of story, character, and play in digital media — from artificial intelligence research to mainstream computer games
- elements that should be clarified or removed
- et me know what you think of the argume
- I'm interested to know what people think of the blog-based peer review process itself

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xpressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies,
both software design and traditional media-studies methods in the study of video games.
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- folks at the Institute for the Future of the Book, who developed CommentPress, a tool for adding digital margin notes to blogs (The Chronicle, September 28, 2007).
- CommentPress, to add critiques right in the margins
- run by the University of Southern California but based in Brooklyn
- sisted on running the manuscript through the traditional peer-review process as well. "We are a peer-review press—we're always going to want to have an honest peer review," says Mr. Sery, senior editor for new media and game studies. "The reputation of MIT Press, or any good academic press, is based on a peer-review model."
- sorting through all those comments will take over his life,
- ariety of voices
- log-based review to be more helpful than the traditional peer review
- Traditional peer review involves carefully chosen experts in the same subject area, who can point to big-picture issues as well as nitpick details. He bets that the blog reviews might merely spark flame wars or other unhelpful arguments about minor points. "I'm curious to see what kind of comments we get back," he says.
- oing to get a lot of people with agendas who aren't interested in having a rational discussion. Some of them are just psychos."
- eally allows for the expression of their ideas

RSS sort of stands for “really simple syndication”…
RSS Feed is a collection of web feed formats that is used to publish frequently updated content.
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- Social bookmarking is as social as you make it.
- Honestly, I never thought I would use this technology. I thought it was stupid and too much work… until the other day at work… I was so frustrated with my research that I decided to pull diigo up. I was able to highlight and tag the articles I needed without losing the websites.
- they say, “jump” and I’m supposed to say “how high”

27 Feb 08

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define a killer application as a program that
provides the capability for an average person to use technology to solve
every day problems and enrich their lives.
RSS, Rich Site Summary
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  Simple Syndication
- you shared your ideas as a teaching
  professional as well as a link to the Web site. If, instead, you post your finds
  with your ideas for implementation to a Web log equipped with RSS generation
  capability, you provide a unique information source that can be accessed by
  thousands of teachers like you that are looking for ways to improve their
  learning environments. In essence, you have helped to establish an online
  community of practice specific to teachers of social studies.
- enables anyone to share their comments, news
  headlines, links to recent articles, descriptions and even images, with, not
  only other web content providers, but users of a variety of devices such as PDAs,
  cell phones, email ticklers, and voice update pagers
- Hearing the truth is no longer a matter of being controlled
  by a media outlet. Speaking for yourself truly becomes possible. A lot of people
  who currently control what we hear would like you to think what you say doesn't
  matter."
- news from professional news organizations, but I am also
  hearing from people and non-news organizations who make a difference to me
- all about choice

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