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Re: Humans vs Algorithms: Who Should Edit Web 2.0?

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Re: Humans vs Algorithms: Who Should Edit Web 2.0?

Paul Montgomery — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:04:42 -0000

When not working, Ned is locked in an abandoned tin mine and has to scavenge scrap metal for himself, as is only proper.

Re: Humans vs Algorithms: Who Should Edit Web 2.0?

Pete Cashmore — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:53:03 -0000

Paul,

I'm stoked to hear you use the word "stoked". There needs to be much more of that. :)

Wink is indeed a fine model, and I'm glad to hear Ned is kept under control. I hope that you feed and walk him regularly.

Re: Humans vs Algorithms: Who Should Edit Web 2.0?

Paul Montgomery — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:46:28 -0000

Careful Pete, appeasement won't buy you any favours when the robot invaders come for your blood. :P

I agree that Wink is a fine model. You may be wondering why we have a robot, Ned, as our mascot. Robots are fine when they are designed to be strictly under the control of human masters. Ned is wholly subservient to the needs of his overlords (i.e. future users of Tinfinger). The problems come when you design robots to act independently to create objects of economic worth (like Web pages) without any involvement by humans. That can only lead to Skynet.

And Chris, I'm stoked that you have been thinking about the subject. There needs to be much more of that.

Re: Humans vs Algorithms: Who Should Edit Web 2.0?

Pete Cashmore — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:03:12 -0000

Update: More discussion here:

http://www.ratcliffeblog.co...

Re: Humans vs Algorithms: Who Should Edit Web 2.0?

Chris Law — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:41:32 -0000

I think that what web 2.0 is really enabling in many ways is for people to harness the power of a distributed audience to do the "editing" or to put it another way for people to find out what's important in the midst of everything is out there.

The algorithms etc. are necessary though to support this effort. I've been thinking about this one for a bit and will have more later. Think of it as how do computers enable the Wisdom of Crowds to be known?

Chris

Re: Humans vs Algorithms: Who Should Edit Web 2.0?

Pete Cashmore — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:28:01 -0000

Hehe. Thanks for the comment.