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In a distributed open hypermedia where the dominant quality is the speed of distribution of an assertion, one cannot rely on the wisdom of crowds. One must be able to get notification based on the seriousness or consequences of the assertion itself. The semantic web has uses. Services have uses. One of these will be an ontology of personal importance. What we learn (or knew) about the Internet as a medium is that it speeds up signal distribution but has no means to separate truth and superstition, something the mammals are often bad at with or without technology. The wisdom of crowds is only as good as enough people care and comment. If an assertion is read but not vetted, it is just an opinion. The problem is not in finding the number of links but in using the number of links joined to the seriousness of the assertion to create automatic notifications to interested parties. Authority is not in owning the assertions but in verifying them. A record of authority is the statement of that vetting and verification. If you ever have to implement an internal affairs module, the utility of those concepts is obvious. len
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