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LongBets + Predictify

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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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Google Search, the New York Times, and the blogs

In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web site. That is a bet recorded at the LongBets foundation. 2,000 bucks are … Continue reading

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