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last edited by BillSeitz on Oct 20, 2008 3:39 am

TimBray says that Stephen Downes' [Northern Voice] session was generally agreed to have been the most controversial of the conference. Downes said:

a website/service is not a community (Virtual Community). A community has to be based on actual relations among its members
the Long Tail/Power Law phenomenon is based on poor filtering/Meta Data mechanisms, which result in people linking to the wrong ("random") things/blogs, rather than those that are most salient.
better tools will change the process, breaking the Power Law phenomenon. He's talking about 3rd-party Meta Data, FOAF, ratings, Rss Aggregator-s that focus on one's Social Network... because meaning comes from ConText, which means it's not contained within a single blog-post in a vacuum, and therefore tagging systems won't work well (to the extent they focus on being an abstraction of a post-in-a-vacuum).

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