http://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/02/11/hub-urls-and-feudalism/ Open information and technology. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:40:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/02/11/hub-urls-and-feudalism/#comment-54 Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:44:11 +0000 /?p=15#comment-54 The term ‘hub’ has been used plenty before, but with the links going out (in contrast to ‘authority’ for lots of links coming in). But the feudal analogy is great, I can’t help but think of the A-list bloggers as Machievelli’s, working for medieval Italian city states…

]]> http://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/02/11/hub-urls-and-feudalism/#comment-53 Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:01:40 +0000 /?p=15#comment-53 I wouldn’t think so — after all, they will not own Wikipedia or its intellectual property, any more than IBM owns Linux by contributing programmer time to it.

]]> http://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/02/11/hub-urls-and-feudalism/#comment-52 Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:58:41 +0000 /?p=15#comment-52 Does Google’s offer to host the Wikipedia alter its URLs suitability as Boroughs creator?

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