In light of the most recent Gorman crapola-fest, some interesting reading/watching… The first is an article in Library Philosophy and Practice about socially-driven authority, and the second is a clip from The Daily Show of an interview of political strategist Bob Shrum. If you let the video load and then shoot ahead to about 5 minutes in, he makes the following statement: “The blogosphere was a lot more right about Iraq than all the experts…” I just thought it was quite the cooincidence that that quote could come the day after Gorman’s ranting about the lack of authority on the web.