Dave Winer: Scripting News: 7/10/2005
Now when they fuck us, we have a way of giving them a black mark. A little more metadata, and it’ll start showing up on their bottom line.
I guess you can tell what I think from the title of my post.
When everyone has a blog – only the most linked to – the most popular will have this effect.
Just observe the left and right political blog ecospheres, both are at war – using links – and the reality Google presents is the battleground and prize.
Clay Shirky’s “Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality” is a must read. Folks seem to want to put it out of their minds and deny it exists I think.