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Welcome to the jungle: finding quality in the internet content ecosystem and why editors are so important歡迎您到叢林：尋找質量在互聯網上的內容生態系統和編輯，為什麼是如此重要，

I我 agree vehemently with Alistair同意強烈與阿利斯泰爾 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.人們認為，誰花的時間decrying缺乏總體質量在博客或Flickr或在互聯網上一般缺少點。 Average quality doesn’t matter.平均質量也不要緊。 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.誰在乎如果我的自由，風景， Photo網站大多crap上，問題是我是否可以得到足夠的貢獻者願意作出花生上傳足夠的內容，一個細小的部分材料outshines傳統的風景， Photo網站，其重點是高質量，高價格。 And whether the search functionality powerful enough to sort through the crap and find the stuff you want.是否搜索功能足夠強大的排序通過crap ，並找到您想要的。 And whether there people willing and able to wade through everything to highlight the good stuff so it bubbles to the top?以及是否有人願意並能夠通過韋德，一切為了突出好東西，所以氣泡頂端？ 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.假設的內容是生產的大量，是copyable和轉化，這一切歸結到是否有人認為，在權力的選擇。

Natural Selection Requires…自然選擇的需要…
For natural selection to occur, two requirements are essential:為自然選擇的發生，兩個要求是必不可少的：

1. 1 。 There must be heritable variation for some trait.必須有遺傳變異的一些特質。 Examples: beak size, color pattern, thickness of skin, fleetness.例子：嘴大小，顏色模式，厚度的皮膚， fleetness 。
2. 2 。 There must be differential survival and reproduction associated with the possession of that trait.必須有差別的生存和繁殖與藏認為，性狀。

Unless both these requirements are met, adaptation by natural selection cannot occur.除非這兩個要求得到滿足，適應由自然選擇不能發生。

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Quantity and variation matter.數量和變異的問題。 Look at biological evolution.研究生物進化。 It builds incredible complex adaptive structures BY MAKING A HELL OF A LOT OF MISTAKES.它建立令人難以置信的複雜的自適應結構作出地獄了很多錯誤。 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.演化依賴於很多失敗的：它最好的人口眾多，快速一代跨度，多變性和容易發生錯誤的機制，重組變異。 The error prone generational process leads to either death (usually), survival (sometimes) or glory (winning the genetic lottery).錯誤容易世代的過程中導致要么死亡（通常） ，生存（有時）或榮耀（贏得遺傳彩票） 。 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.選擇，無論是達爾文的自然選擇或所謂的“人為”選擇由人力市場的力量，訂定指引，有什麼的，最有可能泡沫頂端。 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.讓的正義蒸餾它的本質-是有選擇性的過程中，其中有很大的權力，在整理大量的砂在互聯網上為掘金隊的黃金，和t hoese參與這一進程是新編輯。 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，編輯，決定什麼是重要的以及如何介紹，是遠遠比以往更加重要，因為有那麼多的垃圾過濾。 Editors are the new trend setters, steering us towards what is interesting.編輯的新趨勢，制定，指導我們對什麼是有趣。 They are also far more numerous, untrained, and work less than folks we think of as traditional editors.他們還遠遠多，未受過訓練的，和工作不少於鄉親，我們認為，作為傳統的編輯。 They edit in teams: participatory news sites such as Digg and Reddit essentially allow collaborative editorial.他們編輯的隊伍：參與新聞網站，如digg和reddit基本上是允許的協作編輯。

With far more editors, which ones do we pay attention to?到目前為止，與更多的編輯，哪些做的，我們要注意呢？ Who do we filter out?誰這樣做，我們過濾掉呢？ Well there are editors who do just that on your behalf, if you’re interested, since the process of filtering content is multi-layer.以及有編輯誰做的，只是代表您，如果您有興趣，因為過程中過濾的內容是多層次的。 There is a whole ecosystem of editors digesting, filtering, extending upon content.有一個整個生態系統的編輯的消化，過濾，延長後的內容。 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，一些種信任，網絡將出現從這個混亂，因為在年底誰，你要注意將下降到誰，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動搖，有點不分青紅皂白地，但您可能會被拖入海平庸。 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.在互聯網上，您的教育問題遠多於在沒有在舊世界，有更多的東西，無法取得出版，除非他們至少比較好。 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.當大家信任和閱讀紐約時報它保護的一個子集的人口有搞清楚自己是什麼值得重視。

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，如果你寫一個博客，或者乾脆使用新聞閱讀器，您的一個組成部分，新的內容生態系統的生產者和編輯。 Creating, filtering, enhancing, commenting, editorializing.創造，過濾，加強，評論， 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.選擇是一個功能強大的過程中如果有工具的變化， remixing ，快速生成和我猜想我們將會感到驚訝，因為在什麼出現，從這個過程中我們即將演變的眼睛。

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，如果您抱怨缺乏高質量的互聯網上，您真的抱怨不會帶來很好的在尋找什麼您尋找，仍未能找到任何編輯或中繼編輯你喜歡，或更可能是，您現在的心情離開了，因為所有的內容製作和編輯有不同的價值觀，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.此時其可能高達您產生質量的內容，您是bemoaning缺乏擺在首位。

Is anyone else vaguely annoyed by 是任何人都隱約惱火由 Flickr’s attempted patenting of “interestingness” flickr的企圖專利的“趣味性” let alone the use of that word? 更遑論使用這個詞呢？