Warren Seen

Quick follow up to the previous post - I wanted to get my thoughts out before I was influenced by anyone else’s thoughts

• Steve Rubel takes the classic high school debate approach of defining the word and building an argument from there. Conclusion - yes, it’s not authority, it’s popularity, people.
• Data mining agrees with Steve, “name things for what they are, not for what they are used for”. That is quite obviously right out of Usability 101.
• Jack Krupansky leaves an excellent comment on Scobelizer: “to Technorati, “authority” is simply popularity. That makes *no* sense.“

Consensus seems to be that tracking popularity but calling it “authority” muddies the waters… There is nothing wrong with the feature itself, it’s just the name that’s misleading.

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