Shot down in flames

Well, the wisdom of crowds debate rages on. As Marc quite rightly points out in the comments to my last post, Google rankings depending on in-​​​​bound links means that the crowd in question has already qual­i­fied itself as a content producer rather than a consumer: it isn’t “the masses”. In the meantime, David points to

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Wisdom 2.0

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

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