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Amateur Experts (Yahoo! Answers) Vs. Wisdom Of Crowds & Collective Intelligence (Wikipedia)

And the wisdom of crowds won, of course. Jacob Leibenluft of Slate tells us that David Pennock’s Yahoo! Answers is a librarian’s worst nightmare: [...] Yahoo! Answers—a site where anyone can post a question in plain English, including queries that … Continue reading

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Amateur Journalists (Bloggers) Vs. Professional Journalists (Media) Vs. Wisdom Of Crowds & Collective Intelligence (Wikipedia)

And the wisdom of crowds won, of course. That’s the conclusion I draw from reading Rogers Cadenhead at WorkBench, who assessed what would be the settlement of the LongBets wager on: In a Google search of five keywords or phrases … Continue reading

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