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CREATED BY chris • LAST EDITED BY chris 6966 days AGO

I certainly wouldn't say that they are precisely opposite. How is linking on the "macroweb" less conscious than (local) linking within a microweb?

As for k/i organization, that's an interesting question by itself. As far as I am concerned, the only relevant kind of organizational principle Google applies to the information it amasses is (page)ranking(+). Wikipedia articles are embedded in a rich structural framework of categories and systemic links; I think the real value of those remains to be explored as of yet.

The problem Greg seems to address, however, is that more people than he thought expect filtering systems to apply _political_ bias, and in general that people always want more of the same (easy to digest - resolving [complex] conflicting viewpoints is [extremely] hard [cognitive] work!).

In traditional media who take their role seriously, selecting and mixing content (esp. front page content) is no easy affair (I suppose). When consuming information primarily from self-selected ultranarrow sources (as happens with weblogs), are there negative effects? For some who can't and/or don't want to take a walk outside the echo chamber, there sure seem to be, and we should work harder to understand the multitude of biases every filtering system introduces.