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Blogdex: a modern oracle or the new Pagerank? blogdex ：一个现代甲骨文或新的PageRank吗？

I read a great我看过一个伟大 article文章 on the Blogger site that presents an interesting argument about blogging: an emergent property of this widespread and growing phenomenon is that it has become an oracle of sorts.就在Blogger网站介绍了一个有趣的论点，关于Blogging ：一新兴的财产，这和广泛的现象日益严重的是，它已经成为甲骨文的种种。 There is a certain collective intelligence when you have the power of numbers, diversity of opinion, and freedom of both medium and content.有一定的集体智慧当您有权力的号码，各种不同的意见，和自由，双方的媒介和内容。 If we have methods to analyse the overwhelming mass of data (see如果我们有方法来分析，绝大多数群众的数据（见 Blogdex blogdex and和 Technocrati technocrati for examples) we should be able to answer questions and predict trends about popular topics more accurately than any given individual weblogger.为例子） ，我们应该能够回答提问，并预测发展趋势受欢迎的话题，更准确，比任何个别weblogger 。

This is strikingly similar to the process of biological evolution whose effectiveness in what I would describe as life itself solving the problem of staying alive is related to population size, phenotypic variation and its underlying genetic variation, and availability of diverse environments with subtle variations.这是惊人的相似之处的过程中生物进化，其成效在什么我会形容为生命本身的问题的解决在下榻的活着是有关人口规模，表型变异及其背后的遗传变异和供货情况的不同环境与微妙的变化。

If we have methods to analyse the overwhelming mass of data (see如果我们有方法来分析，绝大多数群众的数据（见 Blogdex blogdex and和 Technocrati technocrati for example) we should be able to answer questions and predict trends about popular topics more accurately than any given individual weblogger, in much the same way that an evolutionary biologist may look for answers to biology questions using genetic and phenotypic analysis举例来说）我们应该能够回答提问，并预测发展趋势受欢迎的话题，更准确，比任何个别weblogger ，在很多的相同方式的进化生物学家可能寻找答案生物学问题，用遗传和表型分析
of populations.人口。

Neat, however I am concerned that it may be possible for special interests prone to deceitful tricks, who once aware of this phenomenon, may try to take advantage of this by unleashing hordes of minimum wage webloggers upon the system.整齐，不过我担心它可能为特殊利益，容易骗术，谁一旦意识到这个现象，可能会尝试利用这个由解放成群的最低工资webloggers后，该系统。 Keep in mind there are already some savvy companies out there who are paying their employees to regularly maintain a public blog.请记住，现在已经有一些精明的公司在那里谁支付其雇员的定期维持一个公共的博客。 Once money is involved will the collective intelligence of webloggers be eroded?一旦涉及金钱是将集体的智慧， webloggers受到侵蚀？ In fact I wonder how hard it would really be to write some robot code that can maintain a weblog..just convincing enough that it would be hard to distinguish from a real blogger.事实上，我不知道如何努力，它真的会写一些机器人的代码可以维持一个博客..刚才有说服力不够，这将是很难区分从一个真正的Blogger 。 Probably not so也许并非如此
hard, I’m sure some AI folk out there could answer that question.艰苦奋斗，我敢肯定，一些爱民歌，有可能会回答这个问题。

A truly useful feature that catapulted Google to stardom,一个真正有用的功能， catapulted Google的明星， Pagerank的PageRank succumbed to some major problems once closeknit “communities” that shared common goals took advantage of its algorithms for assessing how authoritative content is on a subject based on how many other popular content sources link to it.屈服于一些重大问题，一旦closeknit的“社区”这一共同的共同目标，利用其算法的评估如何权威性的内容是关于一个主题的基础上有多少其他受欢迎的内容来源指向它的链接。 As Google has become the Microsoft of information access, it has been prone to many attacks and has also been put in a position where it needs to make moral decisions on behalf of its users.由于Google已经成为微软的信息访问，但已容易许多攻击，并且还提出了一个不错的地方，它需要作出道义上的决定，代表其用户。 For some interesting discussion see一些有趣的讨论见 Google Watch Google的观赏 , where you can see that despite “best intentions” Google is often in an impossibly tricky situation, and that Google makes mistakes like everyone else. ，在这里您可以看到，尽管“最好的意图， ” Google是往往在一个极端微妙的情况下，而且Google犯错误和其他人一样。

Speaking of blogging, I have been struggling to get going on a regular blogging schedule and I thought a log entry about logging may just be what I needed to throw off the writer’s block.在谈到博客，我一直在挣扎，以获得持续定期就博客的时间表和我以为日志条目约测井可能只是我需要摆脱作家的座。 We’ll see if it worked!!!我们将看到如果它的工作！