Truth About Wikipedia – YouTube Video. This documentary from VPROInternational explores Wikipedia and in doing so some core concepts of the participatory web. Previous related post - Cult of the Amateur
Knowledge@Wharton offers an interesting analysis of what appears to be a competition between experts and amateurs as information providers. The piece notes many of the sources I have cited in previous posts (e.g. Revenge of the Experts, Cult of the Amateur). The analysis notes that despite recent criticism of user generated content money is still [...]
I wrote about the return of expertise a couple of days ago and today I encounter a new search engine roughly based on “human” expertise. Topicle is a new search site that allows participants to create their own search engines. You can search using existing search topics or create your own. There was not topic [...]
Newsweek (Revenge of the Experts) offers a recent article contending that entrepreneurs are funding web ventures that offer a role for expertise. The logic appears to be that ad revenue drives web development and ads associated with an expert perspective are likely to be worth more because such sites will attract more attention. For example, [...]
I have to make one more comment about this book and then I will give it up. I have been listening to Friedman’s “The World is Flat” (again) for the past few days. Today, the topic happened to be open source software. In attempting to provide both pros and cons, Friedman describes a discussion with [...]
A few days ago, after reading the first half of Andrew Keen’s “The Cult of the Amateur” I wrote a post predicting that some of the high profile educational bloggers pushing web 2.0 applications would acknowledge this book and offer a refutation. So far my prediction has failed to materialize. I do hope this book [...]
Holding public officials accountable (e.g., Dan Rather) has been touted as one of accomplishments of bloggers. I was listening to public radio this morning and heard an interview with one of the core group from factcheck.org. This individual discussed “spin” and our tendency to be taken in. The example I remember concerned a famous Republican [...]
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