My post on Saturday about prediction markets being a useful way to access collective intelligence brought a response from Gary of Tall Street. Tall Street is a new search engine which operates a form of stock market on search results. You search for and add sites to the system and invest pretend money in the sites you
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According to new research, IT staff are twice as likely to wear a heavy metal t-shirt as their non-IT counterparts. The study of 1000 office workers also found IT types 34% more likely to sport a ponytail. Other key findings: * Black jeans are 63% more popular among IT types than other workers * IT workers Continue reading Stereotypes Alive and err.. Pasty-looking Apologies, but I have had to take down the Democracy poll widget — apparently it messes up Google’s ability to analyse your pages. Larry Sanger, the first editor-in-chief of Wikipedia, and allegedly the originator of the plan to make it a wiki, has announced that he plans to fork the project. The new branch will have no anonymous changes and expert editors. The project will be called the ‘Citizendium’. (Hang on, I know there are some PRs As I’ve observed before, marshalling collective intelligence, or the wisdom of crowds, on the Internet isn’t always very easy. Social news voting sites like digg are susceptible to social influences. Wikis are also weakened by this: do you really want to edit what your boss says? One way, though, to generate the Went to a networking event last night: Beers and Innovations in Soho. The pretext for the event was to discuss the future of RSS, with presentations from Richard Edwards of MyZebra, Peter Nixey of Webkitchen and Ivan Pope from Snipperoo. Thanks to the ‘beers’ aspect, my notes get a little sketchy after the |             | |||
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