Earlier this week, Wikipedia editors decided to restrict the use of a publication as a source for information in its articles, and then a funny thing happened: it made international news. First The Guardian, and then many other publications, reported on the outcome of a proposal to prohibit UK tabloid Daily Mail from reference sections in Wikipedia articles.
When former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum started gearing up to launch his presidential campaign earlier this year, there was one question he could not avoid. It had to do with the matter of alt-weekly editor and advice columnist Dan Savage, who has for years positioned himself as Santorum’s most prominent critic. Many politicians have fierce opponents, but few did what Savage did in 2003, and that was hold a contest to give an alternate meaning to the word “santorum”. I hope you’ll forgive me for declining to quote the winning definition, but you can find it here, and suffice to say that it has stuck. So much so, in fact, that eight years later Savage’s term has come to dominate the web search results for Rick Santorum’s name.
Today I attended an amazing presentation by Bernardo Huberman, director of the Information Dynamics Laboratory at HP Labs, titled “Social Dynamics in the Age of the Web”. Below the roughly editing notes I took during the amazing presentation. They are not intended to represent what Bernardo said but just to give you (me!) some pointers.
F. Suchanek, G. Kasneci, and G. Weikum. WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web, page 697--706. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2007)
F. Suchanek, G. Kasneci, and G. Weikum. WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web, page 697--706. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2007)
J. Hoffart, F. Suchanek, K. Berberich, and G. Weikum. Research Report, MPI-I-2010-5-007. Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany, (November 2010)
O. Dilling. Von der Allmende zur Share Economy: Gemeinbesitz und kollektive Ressourcen in historischer und rechtlicher Perspektive, volume 15 of Beiträge zur Rechts-, Gesellschafts- und Kulturkritik, BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin, 1. Auflage edition, (2018)