There’s an enlightening article on Wired magazine on how the digital crowds can be manipulated by enterprising parties to bias the collective judgement to their own favor. A great reminder that even with large populations, the objectivity of the system can and will be tampered with, especially if the issue is left without attention.
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1 samin // Mar 10, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Fyi, a studio called Stamen did recently a bit of work for Digg to visualize the information flows. Interestingly, the visualizations helped to weed the “fake” diggs as well byt displaying users, their diggs and commonalities.
http://labs.digg.com/swarm/
2 sami.viitamaki // Mar 11, 2007 at 8:05 am
Yeah, seen them. Those apps (stack/swarm/bigspy) are definitely sleek.
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