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I probably oversimplified things in the post - but I think basic thought about opinion following a normal distribution still applies - and the power of this is unlocked once it is possible to see where on the curve something sits.
As you point out - getting this visibility is complicated and will probably come from a range of sources and processes rather than one thing (or from one thing which has the ability to aggregate many things and can therefore smooth out the variance you currently see in Digg, your feeds etc).
The big challenge therefore is to find a system or process that allows us to see the curve, and avoids or cancels out the distortions introduced by people gaming or other forms of distortion.
It did indeed drift off at time, didn't it? All in all, though, I found it very useful.
I expect many different systems of mediation to emerge, clash, complement, compete and coexist in the networks. In fact that's kind of what's happening right now.
Readoing your post about mediation, I don't think the answer is a straighforward one at all. Sometimes Digg - for example - will produce nonsense, sometimes it will work well. Sometimes the Guardian's collection of journalists, commenters and bloggers will mediate effectively for me, sometimes not. Sometimes my feedreader's collection in a river of posts is my own personal mediation of many different sources of discussion and fact - sometimes it misses big important things that I would like to know about.
Look forward to continuing the discussion...
Interesting discussion yesterday - although it did tend to stray away from the big picture and get a bit geeky - as these sessions naturally do given the audience..
The social media revolution is very much my thing (hence name of my blog) although I find it hard getting clients to really see this. I find the analogies with the print revolution useful - therefore very interested in the book you referenced - what was it?
The thing I am most interested in in trying to figure out who or what will be the mediator / process of mediation in social media. See - http://preview.tinyurl.com/2qmxme and also my take on the session on this I did at the Social media Club a few months back http://preview.tinyurl.com/345lmq
Would be good to keep the discussion going.
Richard