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Shot down in flames

July 6, 2006

Well, the wisdom of crowds debate rages on. As Marc quite rightly points out in the comments to my last post, Google rankings depending on in-bound links means that the crowd in question has already qualified itself as a content producer rather than a consumer: it isn’t “the masses”. In the meantime, David points to [...]

Wisdom 2.0

July 5, 2006

Marc Fawzi at Evolving Trends attacks the whole notion of the wisdom of crowds. It’s a development of the disappointing experience he had when digg suddenly made him the number one site on Wordpress for a short period, apparently on the basis that he had come up with a catchy headline. Marc’s issue with digg’s [...]