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Welcome to the jungle: finding quality in the internet content ecosystem and why editors are so important欢迎您到丛林：寻找质量在互联网上的内容生态系统和编辑，为什么是如此重要，

I我 agree vehemently with Alistair同意强烈与阿利斯泰尔 that folks who spent time decrying the lack of general quality in the blogosphere or on Flickr or the internet in general are missing the point.人们认为，谁花的时间decrying缺乏总体质量在博客或Flickr或在互联网上一般缺少点。 Average quality doesn’t matter.平均质量也不要紧。 Who cares if my free stock photo site has mostly crap on it, the question is whether I can get enough contributors willing to make peanuts upload enough content that a tiny portion of the material outshines a traditional stock photo site whose focus is quality and high prices.谁在乎如果我的自由，风景， Photo网站大多crap上，问题是我是否可以得到足够的贡献者愿意作出花生上传足够的内容，一个细小的部分材料outshines传统的风景， Photo网站，其重点是高质量，高价格。 And whether the search functionality powerful enough to sort through the crap and find the stuff you want.是否搜索功能足够强大的排序通过crap ，并找到您想要的。 And whether there people willing and able to wade through everything to highlight the good stuff so it bubbles to the top?以及是否有人愿意并能够通过韦德，一切为了突出好东西，所以气泡顶端？ Assuming that content is produced in vast quantities, is copyable and transformable, it all comes down to whether one believes in the power of selection.假设的内容是生产的大量，是copyable和转化，这一切归结到是否有人认为，在权力的选择。

Natural Selection Requires…自然选择的需要…
For natural selection to occur, two requirements are essential:为自然选择的发生，两个要求是必不可少的：

1. 1 。 There must be heritable variation for some trait.必须有遗传变异的一些特质。 Examples: beak size, color pattern, thickness of skin, fleetness.例子：嘴大小，颜色模式，厚度的皮肤， fleetness 。
2. 2 。 There must be differential survival and reproduction associated with the possession of that trait.必须有差别的生存和繁殖与藏认为，性状。

Unless both these requirements are met, adaptation by natural selection cannot occur.除非这两个要求得到满足，适应由自然选择不能发生。

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Quantity and variation matter.数量和变异的问题。 Look at biological evolution.研究生物进化。 It builds incredible complex adaptive structures BY MAKING A HELL OF A LOT OF MISTAKES.它建立令人难以置信的复杂的自适应结构作出地狱了很多错误。 Evolution relies on a lot of failure: it works best with large populations, rapid generation spans, variability and error prone mechanisms to recombine that variation.演化依赖于很多失败的：它最好的人口众多，快速一代跨度，多变性和容易发生错误的机制，重组变异。 The error prone generational process leads to either death (usually), survival (sometimes) or glory (winning the genetic lottery).错误容易世代的过程中导致要么死亡（通常） ，生存（有时）或荣耀（赢得遗传彩票） 。 Selection, whether Darwin’s natural selection or the so-called “artificial” selection by human market forces, sets the guidelines for what’s most likely to bubble to the top.选择，无论是达尔文的自然选择或所谓的“人为”选择由人力市场的力量，订定指引，有什么的，最有可能泡沫顶端。 Let’s just distill it to the essential - there is a selective process which has great power in sorting massive amounts of sand on the internet for the nuggets of gold, and thoese involved in this process are the new editors.让的正义蒸馏它的本质-是有选择性的过程中，其中有很大的权力，在整理大量的砂在互联网上为掘金队的黄金，和t hoese参与这一进程是新编辑。 The role of editing, deciding what is important and how to present it, is far more important than ever before because there is so much junk to filter.的作用，编辑，决定什么是重要的以及如何介绍，是远远比以往更加重要，因为有那么多的垃圾过滤。 Editors are the new trend setters, steering us towards what is interesting.编辑的新趋势，制定，指导我们对什么是有趣。 They are also far more numerous, untrained, and work less than folks we think of as traditional editors.他们还远远多，未受过训练的，和工作不少于乡亲，我们认为，作为传统的编辑。 They edit in teams: participatory news sites such as Digg and Reddit essentially allow collaborative editorial.他们编辑的队伍：参与新闻网站，如digg和reddit基本上是允许的协作编辑。

With far more editors, which ones do we pay attention to?到目前为止，与更多的编辑，哪些做的，我们要注意呢？ Who do we filter out?谁这样做，我们过滤掉呢？ Well there are editors who do just that on your behalf, if you’re interested, since the process of filtering content is multi-layer.以及有编辑谁做的，只是代表您，如果您有兴趣，因为过程中过滤的内容是多层次的。 There is a whole ecosystem of editors digesting, filtering, extending upon content.有一个整个生态系统的编辑的消化，过滤，延长后的内容。 In all likelihood some kind of trust network will emerge from this chaos, because in the end who you pay attention to will come down to who you trust.在所有的可能性，一些种信任，网络将出现从这个混乱，因为在年底谁，你要注意将下降到谁，你的信任。 If you’re easily distracted and swayed somewhat indiscriminately however you may be dragged into a sea of mediocrity.如果您很容易分心和动摇，有点不分青红皂白地，但您可能会被拖入海平庸。 On the internet, your education matters far more than in did in the old world where more things couldn’t get published unless they were at least relatively good.在互联网上，您的教育问题远多于在没有在旧世界，有更多的东西，无法取得出版，除非他们至少比较好。 When everyone trusts and read the NY Times it protects a subset of the population from having to figure out for themselves what is worth paying attention to.当大家信任和阅读纽约时报它保护的一个子集的人口有搞清楚自己是什么值得重视。

So if you write a blog, or simply use a news reader, you’re part of a new content ecosystem of producers and editors.因此，如果你写一个博客，或者干脆使用新闻阅读器，您的一个组成部分，新的内容生态系统的生产者和编辑。 Creating, filtering, enhancing, commenting, editorializing.创造，过滤，加强，评论， editorializing 。 Selection is a powerful process if it has the tools of variation, remixing, and rapid generation and I suspect we will be as amazed at what emerges from this process as we are about the evolution of the eye.选择是一个功能强大的过程中如果有工具的变化， remixing ，快速生成和我猜想我们将会感到惊讶，因为在什么出现，从这个过程中我们即将演变的眼睛。

So if you’re complaining about the lack of quality on the internet, you’re really complaining about not bring very good at finding what you’re looking for, haven’t been able to find any editors or meta-editors you like, or much less likely, you are feeling left out because all of the content producers and editors have different values than you.所以，如果您抱怨缺乏高质量的互联网上，您真的抱怨不会带来很好的在寻找什么您寻找，仍未能找到任何编辑或中继编辑你喜欢，或更可能是，您现在的心情离开了，因为所有的内容制作和编辑有不同的价值观，比你。

At which point its probably up to you to generate the quality content which you are bemoaning the lack of in the first place.此时其可能高达您产生质量的内容，您是bemoaning缺乏摆在首位。

Is anyone else vaguely annoyed by 是任何人都隐约恼火由 Flickr’s attempted patenting of “interestingness” flickr的企图专利的“趣味性” let alone the use of that word? 更遑论使用这个词呢？