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All Your Realities Are Belong To Us: The
WikipediaGooglizationof Reality
Or
How the Internet Killed the
__________ Star
#t101medialife@typewriter
So What?
Reality
Books
Reality = Knowledge + credentials
Encyclopædia Britannica1764
Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell
Editors (small group) and
experts (small group)
MalePaleStale
Closed Reality
3,611,609 articles23,736,456 pages in total
465,057,622 edits869,846 uploaded files
14,358,065 registered users
Open Reality
Together we can create a reality that we all agree on—
the reality we just agreed on.
Wikilobbying: When money determines Wikipedia
entries, reality has become a commodity
Does latest = best?
iPad
iPad2
"I never considered myself a maverick."John McCain on Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 in a comment on Newsweek magazine's Web site
"He reformed Wall Street, battled big oil, made America prosper again. He's the original maverick. One is ready to lead --McCain." --"Broken" campaign ad, Aug. 5, 2008
War of attrition
Whomever last the longest wins!
Before Christ (BC) /Anno Domini (AD)
Before Common Era (BCE) /Common Era (CE)
Before Google (BG)/After Google (AG)
Before Google< 1998 CE
BG
After Google> 1998 CE
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
And alter the very fabric of reality
But Google is just a search company?
Search
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important".
The good stuff just bubbles to the top
@amanda_hocking
Right?
164,989,832 views1608789.3/day67032.9/hour1117.2/minute18.6/second100K + in this class
More than search
Don’t be evil
Don’t be evil?
Wikipedia + Google
DynamicAccumulative
Consensus Reality
Baywatch reality
Diversity
I reject your reality and substitute my own
Competing realities
the latestvs.
the most
#taxes Promoted#wheninaustralia#singitforsniper#followmeohteenquotesCatherine Zeta-JonesMCRmyVince CableGasquetEVIDENCE PICSpotify
#taxes Promoted#wheninaustralia#singitforsniper#nosleepRise & GrindTeam MinajCoachellaKobe BryantFCATBarry Bonds
#taxes Promoted#youlookedgooduntil#agoodboyfriend#dontdoitDallas ClarkBoy Meets WorldCriminal MindsKobe BryantDerrick RoseIndiana University
What does all this mean toYOU
and yourMEDIA LIFE?
Has the Internet killed the video star?
What is the Media Life
Reality?
Can you be
THE MOST?
Can you be
THE LATEST?
Can you make your agreed reality appear?
What reality are
making right now?
Mark W. Bell
Twitter (typewriter)
And of course Google
