Brock: “PageRank has a limitation though. Wikipedia & Digg have the same limitation. They are easily lead astray by mass misconception.”

Yes, exactly.

That is Wretchard’s point. Once you could use ‘hits’ to find value. Then you could use ‘links’ to find value. Now you can’t anymore (well you can, but it doesn’t work as well as it used to; and it continues to slowly break down).

“The concept of the Internet as an implicit voting system for ideas is a powerful one which has not yet been brought to its logical and ultimate conclusion” …

Brock has it right, if you let dogs votes on “the problem of separating dogs from good authors” you can lead to mass misconception/

The logical and ultimate conclusion is to let ‘good authors’ vote on the ‘problem of seperating dogs from good authors’.

Now you have something!