The New York Times Magazine: Kos Celebre
A talk with super-blogger Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (Daily Kos). Learn about his Army training, how much he earns, and what he thinks of celebrities who blog.
"Mass street drinking sessions fuelled clashes between Spanish youths and riot police early on Saturday, leaving 80 people injured and 70 arrested in Barcelona and Salamanca, police said."
Edge (via Slashdot): Kevin Kelly on Wikis and Science
"'Wikiscience' is leading to perpetually refined papers with a thousand authors. Distributed instrumentation and experiment, thanks to miniscule transaction cost, will yield smart-mob, hive-mind science operating 'fast, cheap, & out of control'. Negative results will have positive value (there is already a 'Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine'). Triple-blind experiments will emerge through massive non-invasive statistical data collection -- no one, not the subjects or the experimenters, will realize an experiment was going on until later. (In the Q&A, one questioner predicted the coming of the zero-author paper, generated wholly by computers.)"
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