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 ability to discriminate the best …read the rest of this article

Marc Fawzi criticises digg for creating crowd-as-bull behaviour. When he published a story that reached digg’s front page, he got 33,000 hits to his site in the first 24 hours, becoming the number one site on Wordpress for 16 hours. The digg crowd acted like a mob, but not a smart one. Marc’s admiration for “the wisdom of crowds” took …read the rest of this article