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:: Friday, May 06, 2005 ::
The way they think...
The boys at the control panel of the Google News bot are tinkering this golden internet property into the red-zone with their "new and improved" method of ranking "news" based on its "quality". This is so fantastically illconceived, particularly on the heels of stories like Rathergate, that it defies logic. But this is how liberals think. That by massaging data to some arbitrary standard of their liking, (ala Rathergate) somehow, the "truth" will emerge.
It's a fool's errand.
For all of their hubris and hyperboly, Bloggers are emerging as the arbiters of truth not because there exists some omnipotent Editor & Chief of the World Wide Web, (as Google and the New York Times would arrogantly fancy themselves); or that Bloggers are any more truthful than "real" journalists. Blogs, by virtue of the "wisdom of crowds", submit the "story" to a brutal vetting by a vast pool of knowledgable free agents, each of whom bring a small piece of the news puzzle to the (pajama) party. That the "editors" of Google News don't get this is astonishing. As the blogosphere evolves, I look forward to Google's retrograde, Pravdaesque experiment to fade into the dark, cold recesses of Cyberspace like the millions upon millions of abandoned web-pages authored by frustrated schoolgirls.
Hey Larry and Sergey; Google this:[what's the frequency Kenneth?]
Inside Update: Welcome Naked Knitting enthusiasts! Glad to see you're still alive, unabandoned and knitting in what appears to be a warm corner of the blogosphere!
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:: Max 11:25 PM [+] ::
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