Chris Wilson posted an interesting article on Slate last week, The Wisdom of the Chaperones, that uses some interesting data on Wikipedia and Digg contributors to look critically at the notion of the wisdom of the crowd.
Essentially, Wilson points out that these social sites are not built and maintained by the masses, rather they are [...]
August 19, 2007 – 12:35 pm
The blogosphere has been running hot this week with posts about a tool that allows you to track all of an organization’s edits of particular Wikipedia pages.
The data-mining tool, WikiScanner, which compiles and mashes up information that has always been available, matches IP addresses with the edits stored in the history pages in Wikipedia. The [...]
News broke yesterday that one of the editors of the site was not the prominent theologian that he claimed, but was in fact a simple university student. It seems people are outraged that the editor, who claimed to be a Professor of Philosophy at a private university, faked his PhD.
Not only were his qualifications bogus [...]
November 20, 2006 – 2:37 pm
Looking for a quote to spice up a presentation or speech? Not content to trawl through all those passé Web 1.0 quote sites? Then check out Quotiki.
As the name suggests, it is a wiki for quotes — well, sort of a wiki. That’s right, rather than pay someone to laboriously enter all those quotes into [...]
October 18, 2006 – 2:17 pm
The font of all knowledge, well maybe not knowledge but certainly a wellspring of information, Wikipedia, has a page on Astroturfing that, given recent developments in the public affairs/communications space, is a must read.
Wikipedia defines astroturfing as:
formal public relations (PR) campaigns which seek to create the impression of being a spontaneous, grassroots behavior. Hence the [...]
By Jason Ryan
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Posted in Communications, Public affairs
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Also tagged astroturf, blogs, edelman, ethics, herceptin, pr, roche, russell brown, Social media, transparency, walmart
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