Digg.Com and Socially-Driven Authority (Lpp Special Issue on Libraries and Google‪)‬

For years, librarians have been able to distill the notion of authority, in its purest form, to two simple questions: "Who said it?" and "Under whose auspices?" The answer to either, or preferably both, of these questions could tell a researcher whether to rely on the information retrieved. Thus, if the person making a statement was an expert, then you could probably trust what he or she said. If something was written in a respected, reputable journal, then it was probably trustworthy. The Dictionary for Library and Information Science defines "authority" as: