Comments on: Links for 11 February 2009 http://stilgherrian.com/daily_links/daily_links_20090211/ All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:24:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/daily_links/daily_links_20090211/#comment-16025 Stilgherrian Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:25:53 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=3443#comment-16025 <strong>@Giania:</strong> I couldn't agree more. When I want medical advice, I don't go to the medical author who's written the most best-selling books and pulls the biggest audience on <em>Oprah</em>. I go to my own GP, who's probably only known to a few hundred people -- but who has a decade and a half of knowledge of me and my health issues. Loic Le Meur's claim that Twitter needs a system to measure authority is bunkum. We <em>already</em> have such a system: people's own brains, which can soon judge whether what someone says is being taken seriously or not by watching how other people react. Or by following their own gut feelings. Glad you enjoyed <em>The Name of the Rose</em>, though personally I don't know whether I could be bothered ploughing through such a tome these days. @Giania: I couldn’t agree more. When I want medical advice, I don’t go to the medical author who’s written the most best-selling books and pulls the biggest audience on Oprah. I go to my own GP, who’s probably only known to a few hundred people — but who has a decade and a half of knowledge of me and my health issues.

Loic Le Meur’s claim that Twitter needs a system to measure authority is bunkum. We already have such a system: people’s own brains, which can soon judge whether what someone says is being taken seriously or not by watching how other people react. Or by following their own gut feelings.

Glad you enjoyed The Name of the Rose, though personally I don’t know whether I could be bothered ploughing through such a tome these days.

]]> By: Giania http://stilgherrian.com/daily_links/daily_links_20090211/#comment-15973 Giania Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:22:56 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=3443#comment-15973 Regarding your comments on "Twinfluence". THANK YOU. I have been foaming at the mouth with barely surpressed disgust and rage ever since I heard about Loic Le Meur's instance on some kind of "authority" measurement/search system for Twitter. Authority is a difficult enough subject without trying to measure or quantify it by way of an ephemera-centric service like Twitter. It would be like saying that the kid who got the most valentines in school was obviously the go-to for any questions you might have. That sickening confusion between popularity and expertise really makes it difficult for many intelligent people to be taken seriously, I think. Services like this one just don't help matters, either. P.S. On a totally unrelated note, I did get around to finishing <em>Name of the Rose</em> and it was absolutely delightful. Regarding your comments on “Twinfluence”. THANK YOU. I have been foaming at the mouth with barely surpressed disgust and rage ever since I heard about Loic Le Meur’s instance on some kind of “authority” measurement/search system for Twitter. Authority is a difficult enough subject without trying to measure or quantify it by way of an ephemera-centric service like Twitter. It would be like saying that the kid who got the most valentines in school was obviously the go-to for any questions you might have. That sickening confusion between popularity and expertise really makes it difficult for many intelligent people to be taken seriously, I think. Services like this one just don’t help matters, either.

P.S. On a totally unrelated note, I did get around to finishing Name of the Rose and it was absolutely delightful.

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