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    Posted on November 18th, 2009

    Written by jossi fresco

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    Who do you trust?

    Who do you trust?

    Deconstructing authority in social context of a wired world
    Clay Shirky continues to provide insightful comments about the changes permeating our society in the context of the fundamental changes brought forward by social media.
    Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources, without any human standing [...]

  • misc, social media

    Posted on August 7th, 2009

    Written by jossi fresco

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    26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog

    26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog

    Barb Dybwad provides a very useful list of 26 locations from which content released under the Creative Commons and free licenses (such as GDFL) can be downloaded to enhance blog posts, social media sites, and the like.
    Read more @ Mashable

  • misc, social media

    Posted on February 26th, 2009

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    Wikipedia, a finite game?

    Wikipedia, a finite game?

    The way I see it, collaboration is the antithesis of winning. Players in a game can be focused in terminating the game by winning or by declaring once side as the loser. In collaboration, all players are focused intently in keeping the game going.

    Wikipedia is indeed a finite game, but has embodied many traits of an infinite game. [...]