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Thursday Oct 14, 2004

The unbiased collective wisdom of wikis

Comments[0] by Dave in Roller
RED HERRING | Wiki wars: "Fans argue that Wikipedia’s open system taps into the collective wisdom of large groups of people to root out error and minimize bias. While anyone can make a change to any entry, the discussions around those changes are open, said Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program in New York City. “It’s like the security of sidewalks,” said Mr. Shirky. “If everyone shares a little the sidewalk is safe.”"
Wikipedia is just amazing. Given enough eyeballs all bias is evident? I hope that turns out to be true in the long run, but it seems pretty unlikely to me. (Via Dave Winer.)

Wiki vs. blog

Comments[0] by Dave in Roller

James Robertson has some good thoughts on wiki vs. blog

re: The Referer Spam battle rages on

Comments[7] by Dave in Roller

Lance comments on the recent surge in referrer spam. I've been deleting referrers and adding ugly new ignore words to my Roller installation on a daily basis this week. It is really getting bad. Three options I would like to see in Roller:

  • Referrer white list: a blog only accepts referrers that include words that are listed in the blog's white list.
  • MT Blacklist: use the MT Blacklist data to filter referrers just as we now (in Roller 0.9.9) filter comments.
  • Technorati check: a blog only accepts comments that come form other blogs that are in the blog's Technorati cosmos.

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