Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Northwest Airlines supports RSS. 

Mike Arrington announces a TechCrunch party this Friday in Atherton. I'll be there for sure.  

Nick Bradbury discusses the Reading Lists idea. 

Podcastercon is on for Jan 7 in Chapel Hill, NC. 

For once Orlowski gets the story right. However before trashing Wikipedia, he might take a look at his own track record. At least at Wikipedia they in some ways, sometimes, try to get the story right. It would be hard to say the same for Orlowski. However, I personally have experienced the bitter bile of the Wikipedia community for daring to suggest that the quality of the "encyclopedia" may vary from article to article and day to day. Some stories turn into virtual battlegrounds. It's not really Wikipedia's fault, it's the way online communities evolve where everyone has an equal voice. No matter how good something is, there are always more idiots and morons to take it down. Maybe that's another law. On the Internet the volume of messages posted by idiots plus those posted by morons always exceeds the number posted by well-meaning moderately intelligent people, squared.  

Don Park: " I can't help wondering how Technorati determines whether a blog is fake or not." 

It's important to note that it's not weblogs that are under attack, just services that concentrate and redistribute weblog content. You won't likely see pointers to spam blogs on Scripting News, even if the search engines are jammed up with them. If you subscribe to Instapundit, you'll still just get links that Glenn Reynolds thought were interesting. But it is possible to fool a blogger, for example, consider this post by Doc Searls. He didn't know that I wrote it and that he was pointing to a spammer's site; he probably got it through Technorati or PubSub. In the future people will think twice about pointing to sites they don't know.