Dr W mentions this and asks “Does this mean that malevolent corporations will inevitably poison the well of conversation?”
I feel a little self-congratulatory pointing (I did it a few days ago here, and on Metafilter recently, too) to this wee rant I wrote a couple of months ago, but Rule #23a of Effective Weblogging is Work Those Archives, right?
Anyway, I hope this is germane. I haven’t had my first coffee yet, so who knows…
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Metablogging
it is true that corps will start to get into this more, but we will each have the option to employ social networks and electronic tools to defeat this. I advocate some sort of reputation or trust system to filter. For instance, http://http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb2.pl?WebOfTrustModeration