Comments on: Shot down in flames http://twopointouch.com/2006/web-2-0/shot-down-in-flames/ web 2.0, blogs and social media Mon, 30 May 2011 20:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Another Post about GooTube, but descending rapidly into specious generalisations at twopointouch: web 2.0, blogs and social mediahttp://twopointouch.com/2006/web-2-0/shot-down-in-flames/#comment-797 Another Post about GooTube, but descending rapidly into specious generalisations at twopointouch: web 2.0, blogs and social media Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:31:41 +0000 http://twopointouch.com/2006/07/06/shot-down-in-flames/#comment-797 [...] The market believes this can work. Long-time readers will know that I am a believer in the Wisdom of Crowds. As the book says, when they’re properly orchestrated, the masses can make better decisions than experts. Stock Markets are not ideal examples of this, I think, since success breeds success and vice-versa, but they come close in some respects. [...] […] The market believes this can work. Long-time readers will know that I am a believer in the Wisdom of Crowds. As the book says, when they’re properly orchestrated, the masses can make better decisions than experts. Stock Markets are not ideal examples of this, I think, since success breeds success and vice-versa, but they come close in some respects. […]

]]> By: Stock Tip: Bet on Collective Intelligence at twopointouch: web 2.0, blogs and social mediahttp://twopointouch.com/2006/web-2-0/shot-down-in-flames/#comment-457 Stock Tip: Bet on Collective Intelligence at twopointouch: web 2.0, blogs and social media Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:33:03 +0000 http://twopointouch.com/2006/07/06/shot-down-in-flames/#comment-457 [...] 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 necessary conditions (independence, self-interest, diversity) is to set up a virtual stock market. [...] […] 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 necessary conditions (independence, self-interest, diversity) is to set up a virtual stock market. […]

]]> By: Ian Delaneyhttp://twopointouch.com/2006/web-2-0/shot-down-in-flames/#comment-33 Ian Delaney Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:21:15 +0000 http://twopointouch.com/2006/07/06/shot-down-in-flames/#comment-33 Good point, range - I'd like to think that in a reasonable number of cases, it creates dialectical thought on a mass scale, advancing us a little bit. In truth, probably a lot of times it does and just as many times, it doesn't, as people miscommunicate, mis-represent and dumb down the best bits. Or use someone else's article as a filler, when they haven't got anything to say. (*Looks guiltily down at some of my own posts*) Good point, range — I’d like to think that in a reasonable number of cases, it creates dialectical thought on a mass scale, advancing us a little bit.

In truth, probably a lot of times it does and just as many times, it doesn’t, as people miscommunicate, mis-represent and dumb down the best bits. Or use someone else’s article as a filler, when they haven’t got anything to say. (*Looks guiltily down at some of my own posts*)

]]> By: ranghttp://twopointouch.com/2006/web-2-0/shot-down-in-flames/#comment-32 rang Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:51:31 +0000 http://twopointouch.com/2006/07/06/shot-down-in-flames/#comment-32 This is another aspect of the blogosphere that deserves study, how one blog influences another, how one article influences another. It's more than simple comments, it's how one author builds of another to make something more relevant to the subject at hand. This is another aspect of the blogosphere that deserves study, how one blog influences another, how one article influences another.

It’s more than simple comments, it’s how one author builds of another to make something more relevant to the subject at hand.

]]> By: Marchttp://twopointouch.com/2006/web-2-0/shot-down-in-flames/#comment-28 Marc Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:21:58 +0000 http://twopointouch.com/2006/07/06/shot-down-in-flames/#comment-28 See my Notes follow-up. Mine deals with the theory. Yours deals more with the evidence. That's why I feel we have a well rounded discussion between the bunch of us here. Marc See my Notes follow-up.

Mine deals with the theory. Yours deals more with the evidence.

That’s why I feel we have a well rounded discussion between the bunch of us here.

Marc

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