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February 23, 2007

Massively peer reviewed science

Dario Taraborelli has a terrific post looking at the strengths of weaknesses of social software when stacked up against scientific peer review. He finds lots of uses, especially since traditional peer review doesn't scale, although he doesn't think social software will replace it.

Overall, the systems Dario looks at are better at flagging items as interesting than at vouchsafing their credibility, although his proposal for "a wiki-like system coupled with anonymous rating of user contributions," would head in that direction. [Tags: science peer_review knowledge everything_is_miscellaneous ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at February 23, 2007 03:36 PM

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This new post from Jane McGonigal is obliquely related -- she tries to extend the idea of massive participation in science from review into actual research and/or problem-solving. Oh, and it involves games!

Posted by: Robin | February 23, 2007 06:14 PM

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