More on the Web 2.0 / Authority Conundrum

A post on a site called "Academic Productivity" is circling parts of blogosphere at the moment. It's called Soft Peer Review? Social Software and Distributed Scientific Evaluation. Interesting stuff.

Recommended reading: "The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority"

This excellent article appeared in the June 15, 2007 Chronicle of Higher Education's Review section. Author Michael Jensen describes the changing nature of scholarly authority in our current web 2.0 environment and envisions what authority might mean in 10 or 15 years, when we are all immersed in web 3.0. Worth a look.