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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Digg is (a) bull, says Evolving Trends

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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