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A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority « Clay S
Jack Balkin invited me to be on a panel yesterday at Yale’s Information Society Project conference, Journalism & The New Media Ecology , and I used my remarks to observe that one of the things up for grabs in the current news environment is the nature of authority. In particular, I noted that people trust new classes of aggregators and filters, whether Google or Twitter or Wikipedia (in its ‘breaking news’ mode.) I called this tendency algorithmic authority.Dear blogfans: Todd is apparently more busy than I am and consequently this was the only way I could drag him on stage here.
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Google's Scott Huffman: Many More Search Features Coming -
Posted by: Rob Hof on October 03, 2009
Last week YouTube blogged that it is considering moving away from the familiar 5-star system of reviews.
Should YouTube Scrap its Ratings System and Rely on Implicit Use
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I totally agree with Joshua Porter about Amazon ‘s new review interface – it’s awesome. It provides even greater insight into user ratings by showing a breakdown of the number of people who selected each star rating.