http://twopointouch.com/2006/web-2-0/digg-is-a-bull-says-evolving-trends/ web 2.0, blogs and social media Mon, 30 May 2011 20:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://twopointouch.com/2006/web-2-0/digg-is-a-bull-says-evolving-trends/#comment-9 twopointouch » Wisdom 2.0 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:11:49 +0000 http://twopointouch.com/?p=12#comment-9 [...] 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. More on that story below. He concludes that “while a crowd can be a decent calculator of subjective measurable value, it will always produce a dumb choice when it comes to subjective quality” and calls for a return to the old order whereby experienced editors and qualified professionals decided what’s important. [...] […] 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. More on that story below. He concludes that “while a crowd can be a decent calculator of subjective measurable value, it will always produce a dumb choice when it comes to subjective quality” and calls for a return to the old order whereby experienced editors and qualified professionals decided what’s important. […]

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