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James Surowiecki?s The Wisdom of Crowds:
A Review
James Surowiecki?s The Wisdom of Crowds:
A Review
06/14/2004 10:04 AMUpon hearing about a book on “the wisdom of crowds”, I
expected it to answer three qeustions: Are crowds wise?,…
ETECH Notes: Surowiecki on Independent
Individuals and Wise Crowds
ETECH Notes: Surowiecki on Independent
Individuals and Wise Crowds
03/17/2005 03:56 AMCory Doctorow:
Here are my notes from James Surowiecki's
In
dependent Individuals and Wise Crowds, or Is It Possible to Be Too
Connected?, at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San
Diego.
Surowiecki's book The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and
How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and
Nations is meant to be quite good -- it's sitting in my pile of
things I need to read as soon as I get a chance. Based on his talk, I
think I might bump it up a couple of positions.
Wisdom of crowds works on problems where there's a true answer,
or when some choices are better than other in some Platonic
sense. The reason this works is that people are operating on
private info, which may be bad or fragmented.
The opinions are diverse -- not consensus but disagreements.
People don't know much about what others are betting on or
guessing -- not a lot of interpersonal interaction.
Compare with Linux: large group of people working on problems,
but ultimately one person writes the code that gets committed.
The decision is centralized: one or a small number of people get
to commit code to the kernel.
Compare with ant-hill: Often a metaphor for human behavior. How
to use a bunch of dumb agents (ants don't know much) whose
interaction produce stunningly intelligent results, e.g. finding
food with least amount of energy. E.g. ant graveyards and food
supplies are equidistant.
Ants follow simple rules and pay a lot of attention to those
around them: interaction is the essence of intelligence. The only
way to get where they want to go is by paying close attention to
one another.
Here's my message: HUMAN BEINGS ARE NOT ANTS. We do not have the
biological programming or tools to allow this kind of interaction
to produce intelligence. We don't have the ability to sense or
secrete formic acid.
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Rick James - www.RickJames.com - The
Internet Home of The King of Funk...Rick
James
Rick James - www.RickJames.com - The
Internet Home of The King of Funk...Rick
James
08/07/2004 02:09 PM#20 Rick James .. original
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P. D. James
P. D. James
03/12/2003 06:03 PM“What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later
give.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]...
James Joyner
James Joyner
07/21/2004 09:42 AMgood roundup .. round-up ..
abuzz
outsidethebeltway.com/archives/6937
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r.i.p. rick james
r.i.p. rick james
08/06/2004 02:47 PMcocaine is a hell of a drug
He was Rick James, b...
He was Rick James, b...
08/06/2004 02:49 PM
He was Rick James, b...
Funk singer Rick James, best known for the 1981 hit "Super
Freak," died Friday, apparently of natural causes, police said.
James Wolcott
James Wolcott
12/26/2004 02:36 PMrecently discovered blog .. Big Media blogger .. starting a blog ..
Wolcott, James .. this new blog .. now blogging .. blogger .. Wolcott
.. blog .. more
jameswolcott.com
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Jonathan James
Jonathan James
09/10/2004 01:32 AMTechTree Sep 10 2004 5:48AM GMT
"Caryn James"
"Caryn James"
08/22/2004 07:54 AMJames Lileks
James Lileks
08/27/2004 09:31 PMJames Lileks: Is Kerry's Problem Nuance? Or Is It
Obfuscation?
jewishworldreview.com/0804/lileks.html
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"James Lileks"
"James Lileks"
09/02/2004 02:52 AMJames K. Polk?
James K. Polk?
03/06/2004 02:08 AMIn 1844, the Democrats were split. The three nominees for the
presidential candidate were Martin Van Buren, a former president and
an abolitionist; James Buchanan, a moderate; Louis Cass, a general and
expansionist. From D.C. came a dark horse riding up: he was Ralph
Nader, Independent of the Stump....
"James Wolcott"
"James Wolcott"
09/05/2004 09:48 AM"James Joyner"
"James Joyner"
05/12/2004 05:27 PMJames Project 2.0.0
James Project 2.0.0
04/14/2004 06:22 AMA framework which enhances collaborative groups by making use of the
Web.
See James Fall
See James Fall
10/30/2003 02:43 AMMy boss at work wants to see my trip and fall. I tend to run into
things and stumble, but I never fall. However...
"LILEKS (James) :: the Bleat"
"LILEKS (James) :: the Bleat"
04/09/2004 04:12 PMJames takes blame
James takes blame
09/05/2004 03:56 AMKeeper David James admits his mistake cost England victory against
Austria.
Rick James dead.
Rick James dead.
08/06/2004 02:49 PM
Rick James dead. Big red breaking news box at
CNN.com, also
here.
:(
"James Joyner notes"
"James Joyner notes"
05/06/2004 09:52 PMDave Kim and James Grimmelmann
Dave Kim and James Grimmelmann
06/30/2004 12:52 PMDave
Kim and
James
Grimmelmann, hailing from Georgetown and Yale law schools
respectively, are Creative Commons' summer interns this year. They're
both doing great work. So great that we forgot to blog their presence
until now.
James Taranto gets my back too
James Taranto gets my back too
05/13/2004 11:03 PMWSJ OpinionJournal .. A possible answer .. cheered me a bit .. the
second
opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110005068
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James Bond 007: NightFire
James Bond 007: NightFire
08/13/2004 12:47 PMAlthough certain parts of it got a bit tediously repetitive, on the
whole I found it great fun. By Richard Hallas, Inside Mac Games (via
MyAppleMenu)
"agree with James Lileks"
"agree with James Lileks"
07/17/2004 08:59 PMRonnie James Dio for President!
Ronnie James Dio for President!
01/27/2004 11:32 AM Dioforamerica. [
via this place]
James Wolcott: The Ghoulies
James Wolcott: The Ghoulies
04/01/2005 01:41 AMJames Wolcott: The Ghoulies .. So does Wolcott ..
ghouls
jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/03/the_ghoulies.php
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LILEKS (James) :: the Bleat
LILEKS (James) :: the Bleat
04/09/2004 04:08 PMroutinely covers the issues better, with good quotes and trenchant
analysis .. From Lileks' bleat today: .. read two of these pieces ..
Diplobabble .. quote ..
posts
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LILEKS (James) It's Lithiated
LILEKS (James) It's Lithiated
09/06/2004 04:09 PMBeaut of a Bleat .. James Lileks ..
[LINK]
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"LILEKS (James) The Bleat"
"LILEKS (James) The Bleat"
11/15/2003 03:18 AM"Ronnie James Dio for America"
"Ronnie James Dio for America"
01/28/2004 03:36 PM"James Q. Wilson notes"
"James Q. Wilson notes"
12/26/2004 10:30 AMJames Q. Wilson notes
James Q. Wilson notes
12/25/2004 05:00 PMopinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006074
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James Tauber gets into the conversation
James Tauber gets into the conversation
09/25/2004 01:47 PMI just received this comment from James Tauber:
More on Aggregation Versus Hosting
Previously on
this blog, I've called for a separation of hosting from
aggregation. I want to be able to maintain authoritative data on one
site and have other sites use it for their aggregation.
When I read Ted Leung's entry Microcontent
personality disorder and Steve Mallett's comments on it, my
immediate thought was that they could both have what they want if we
could separate where we host our data with where it is aggregated and
made "social".
Marc Canter (whose work around Digital Lifestyle Aggregators is
definitely worth following) resp
onds to Steve Mallett. Marc is spot on that people have their
information all over the place. But I still believe that if systems
are built to support a separation between hosting and aggregation,
they'll support both the distribution of primary data and the kind of
"self-hosting" that a certain segment like Steve and myself want.
Bottom line is all combinations of centralized/decentralized
hosting/aggregation should be possible.
It's not that hard to do. Sites that aggregate just need to provide
a mechanism where users can point to their data hosted somewhere else
rather than have to re-enter their data in multiple aggregators.
Aggregators then keep customers based on the value of their
aggregation, not the lock-in of being the hosts of people's valuable
data. People who want hosting for their pictures, blogs, etc can use
hosting services to do it. But their choice of hosting service should
not impact their participating in aggregation and the social aspects
of micro-content that follow.
