Marc Fawzi criticises digg for creating crowd-as-bull behaviour. When he published a story that reached digg’s front page, he got 33,000 hits to his site in the first 24 hours, becoming the number one site on WordPress for 16 hours. The digg crowd acted like a mob, but not a smart one. Marc’s admiration for “the wisdom of crowds” took
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Marc Fawzi makes an interesting point about web 2.0 society Fact: trusted individuals are once again the source of news in a society (bloggers) Fact: word of mouth is once again how news spreads (viral marketing) Fact: people once again hunt and gather in a group (del.icio.us) Fact: people once again group things using words like |             | |||
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