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Tag Archives: Jason Kottke
Amateur Journalists (Bloggers) Vs. Professional Journalists (Media) Vs. Wisdom Of Crowds & Collective Intelligence (Wikipedia)
And the wisdom of crowds won, of course. That’s the conclusion I draw from reading Rogers Cadenhead at WorkBench, who assessed what would be the settlement of the LongBets wager on: In a Google search of five keywords or phrases … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Betting, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Prediction Journalism
Tagged Amateur Journalists, Collective Intelligence, Dave Winer, Google, Iraq, Jason Kottke, LongBets, Martin Nisenholtz, media outlet ranks, New York Times, oil prices, Open Media, professional media, the New York Times, the Times, United States, USD, Virginia Tech, Vs. Wisdom Of Crowds & Collective Intelligence, Wikipedia, wisdom of crowds, Yahoo!
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Google Search, the New York Times, and the blogs
In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web site. That is a bet recorded at the LongBets foundation. 2,000 bucks are … Continue reading
Posted in Betting, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Humor, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, The Internet
Tagged California, citizen media, Donna Hoffman, Google, Jason Kottke, LongBets, mainstream media, marketing professor, the New York Times, umbrella site, University of California, web publishing
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2 bits of advice for the newbie bloggers or webmasters
#1. Register your own domain name. Don’t let your blog or website lives as a sub-website (midasoracle.wordpress.com). Generally, never be dependent of one service provider. (((See how Blogger-dependent Perry Eidelbus is so pissed off by the new version of his … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology
Tagged blogger, Internet presence, Jason Kottke, Perry Eidelbus
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User-Created Prediction Markets & Ranking Methodology
If we are bound to have user-created prediction markets (Foresight Exchange, Flutter, Inkling, InTrade, etc.), then, by the same token, we need an appropriate ranking methodology to present only the most interesting (and urgent?) contracts to the frontpage readership. Just … Continue reading
Yahoo! research scientist David Pennock’s 15 minutes of fame
Cascade of events. #1. I sent the link to Odd Head (David Pennock’s excellent blog) to professor Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution. (I also sent him the procrastination link, and the methods of visualization link.) #2. He published it, and … Continue reading
How can you have bloggers write on your products or services?
Scan this long Kottke review of the iPhone. And now ask yourself: How could you make people blog like crazy about your prediction markets? (I don’t think that Jason Kottke received an iPhone for free.) [But I could well be … Continue reading