Comments on Eric Reasons: Crowdsourcing Curation: The Social Graph as Gateke...

Thanks Ruti! Glad you found the post useful.

2011-03-13T16:39:02.291-04:00

Thanks Ruti! Glad you found the post useful.

9 months later, and this post is still relevant! t...

2011-03-13T16:33:33.142-04:00

9 months later, and this post is still relevant! thanks, its thought provoking. Ruti

I should've added this little gem: "Whet...

2010-07-21T07:18:43.184-04:00

I should've added this little gem:

"Whether this revolution in the reading habits of the American public means that we are being inundated by a flood of trash which will debase farther the popular taste, or that we shall now have available cheap editions of an ever-increasing list of classics, is a question of basic importance to our social and cultural development."

--Harvey Swados, 1951, re: the paperback.

via Clay Shirky, _Cognitive Surplus_

Excellent post. Based on what I've read (don&...

2010-07-20T23:48:50.773-04:00

Excellent post. Based on what I've read (don't own an iPhone), Apple's excellence on the apps is overrated, BTW. Because the process of responding to user community feedback is so centralized and bureaucratic, the correction of bugs tends to be extremely slow.

Cf. the argument that the most effective way of aggregating and using counter-terror intelligence would be to remove security classification and open everything up so it could be acted on by the rules of Raymond's Bazaar. The enormous amount of intelligence collected is unusable because nobody's in a position to even know what's there or put individual items together. Even the people with the top clearances are forced to sit in a locked room and forbidden to take notes.