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 [ - Jamdo Blog Marketing] Web 2.0 - The Cracks are Beginning to Appear Posted on Monday 24 April 2006 Web 2.0 has been a great thing for the internet. In fact a lot of people have hailed it is the “democratisation of information” in the way that community oriented sites have allowed people to promote information based on popularity rather than any corporate or media agenda. That’s great but the cracks have started to appear. Some of you have surely been following the latest Digg episode that has sparked a slight furore on the internet. It turned out that Digg was manually altering the results in response to somebody spamming their front page. Then of course, there was the Tammy NYP saga over at Technorati - basically where a sex tape was dominating their search results to such an extent that they were forced to remove all references to it from their front page. We also shouldn’t forget the problems that Wikipedia had with people altering other’s biographies. I guess then we can stop referring to these sites as...