Tag Archive 'democracy'

Healthy measure of web scepticism ['If web 2.0 flattens everything to the level of whim and self-actualisation, then it will have done more harm than good']: check

Emotive comparison example from expert [the lone blogger v professional journalistic teams]: check

Flashy attention-grabbing headline ['Break free of this world wide delusion']: check

All the ingredients for the Sunday paper web rant [...]

I spoke to Clay Shirky recently for a piece on Journalism.co.uk. His comments provoked a few questions about web democracy, and what exactly he had meant when using the Change.gov illustration. One of his answers in today’s Observer ‘This Much I Know’ feature looks at that example again.
“Algorithms dont do a good job of detecting [...]