Tue 29 Sep 2009
Questionable title aside, this interesting article at least marginally renews my faith in law reviews producing high quality work:
Hoffman, David A., and Salil Mehra. n.d. “Wikitruth Through Wikiorder.” SSRN eLibrary. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1354424.
The authors present a nice history of Wikipedia's dispute arbitration process, and a solid analysis of published arbitration decisions. Very cool. By far the best part, however, is this sentence on the challenges of coordination in online collective action:
Altruists, like cats, are hard to herd.
(Thanks to Megan for the heads up on this one!)
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Sorry you didn't like the title, but I'm happy you otherwise enjoyed it. Law journals produce great work often — they push against professors' weakness for jargon. This piece ought to be out in print within a few weeks in the Emory Law Journal.
Hah, well, you caught me in an unnecessarily snarky attack on law journals, which to be honest I don't read all that much. I was just surprised to find solid social scientific research in that forum. For all I know that happens all the time and I just don't see it.
Anyway, it's great stuff. I'll keep an eye out for the official pub., as I'm sure I'll want to cite it in the future.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Sorry for the bolt out of the blue, but I saw you're a chef — got any recipes for a whole duck, savory rather than fruity, you like that you'd be willing to share?
Best,
Salil
Ha! I always like a bolt from the blue. I've had very good luck using the upside-down slow roasting method. You basically just slow roast the thing at 250 or so, but the trick is that you put it in the rack breast-side down for most of the cooking. e.g.:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Crisp-Roast-Duck-with-Olives-352012