In his Friday list of interesting links, Tim O’Reilly includes a note about the technology news web site,
digg, which covers some of the same territory as slashdot and
tech.memeorandum.
O’Reilly, commenting on the different way these sites work, says, “There’s an interesting battle looming between collective wisdom and artificial intelligence, personified by Digg on one side and Memeorandum on the other. One harnesses users’ editorial judgement, the other replaces it. I think we’ll see a lot more sites like Digg coming.”
How do libraries fit into this? So far, we’re not doing much with social bookmarking (along the lines of del.icio.us) or automated classification (along the lines of Google news and memeorandum).
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