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Which set of peers? How qualified are the peers to review a particular topic? Are they fact checking or simply commenting? The problem of aggregation is that it is really publish/subscribe. It has no means to: 1. Vette an authority. 2. Vette the authenticity of the item offered. 3. Vette the facts presented in the item offered. 4. Discriminate among these three vetted items separately (it is possible the facts are correct but the item is fabricated; it is possible the facts are incorrect but the authority is legitimate; it is possible that there are no facts, simply opinions or even art (eg, humorous stories), that is, intent is misconstrued. 5. Vette the interpretations or intensions of the presentation. Very different actions follow-on the results of such vetting and they vary not only by the filters applied to the source but by the intent of the reader/reviewer in the context of the review as a speech act. We have some stunning examples in the last American presidential election where in one case the article was fabricated but the facts were correct, another in which the article was real but the facts incorrect and in which the best authorities were dismissed and the least credible authorities acknowledged to meet the intensions of the reviewers. This is politics of course but it is played at many scales. If you post something your boss doesn't agree with in an at-will state, he is free to dismiss you. Of course he can do that at any time, but the blog can be easily used to create conditions for formal censure and all he needs are a few allies to do that. Still want to blog openly or personally? Caveat vendor. Peer review is insufficient. Too many motivations enter the process. So tough as this is for humans, one wonders if it can be made simpler through automation. Some aspects can. Those should be of interest here, not a simple minded defense of the technology or the act of private publishing. The problem is the amplification aspects of the web. Its advantage is also its weakness. The argument you are making is that it is self-governing. In a weak way, it is. The problem is discriminating a case where weak governance is sufficient and when strong methods are required. Caveat emptor. len From: Jeff Rafter [mailto:lists@j...] Maybe I am not as caught up in the whole blog thing as I thought I was. But I thought that blogs were peer reviewed.
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