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Saturday, January 02, 2010

Twitter Provides Algorithmic Authority

@acarvin tweet on CNN

Why Twitter Will Endure by David Carr, NYTimes.com:
"Twitter helps define what is important by what Mr. Shirky has called “algorithmic authority,” meaning that if all kinds of people are pointing at the same thing at the same instant, it must be a pretty big deal."
A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority by Clay Shirky.