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You’ll have come across the stories, talks and interviews about Clay Shirky’s new book: Cognitive Surplus. I think that all of us get – and recognise – the basic idea. Most of us spend/waste so very much time watching television. That’s typically pretty passive. However, an increasing number of My estwhile colleague, the excellent David Gauntlett, has posted a new video about the work towards his next book Making is Connecting: Google Answers has been closed while Yahoo! Answers goes from strength to strength. The key difference between the two is that Google’s service paid vetted ‘experts’ to produce results, while Yahoo allows anyone to pitch in. The whole thing leaves a lot of questions. I’m not sure whether the stats prove an One of the cornerstones of most definitions of Web 2.0 is the idea of the Wisdom of Crowds. In Tim O’Reilly’s seminal essay on the subject, he talks about the blogosphere being an example of this: If it were merely an amplifier, blogging would be uninteresting. But like Wikipedia, blogging harnesses collective intelligence as I’ve just been checking out Wikibooks, a project of the Wikimedia foundation that aims to create free books. Like Wikipedia, anybody can contribute to the books either by adding new material or editing existing books. Those books that are complete or voted ‘good enough’ are also available as PDF documents and even print editions A new report says Wikis are more important than social networks when it comes to business technology buyers. The report, from Knowledge Storm and Universal McCann, is available here — registration required. It’s also a cut-and-paste protected PDF, the devil’s own file format. But basically, it says that, of 5300 participants: 77% of these buyers |             | |||
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