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Putting the prediction markets under the big “crowdsourcing” tent

Written by Chris F. Masse on May 21, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Via Keith Anderson (Senior Analyst at RNG)
Chapter 7 – What the Crowd Knows: Collective Intelligence in Action – by Jeff Howe
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He is a Wired journalist.
I prefer stuff written by economists like Robin Hanson, Justin Wolfers, Eric Zitzewitz, Koleman Strumpf, David Pennock, etc.
What’s the point of having the mainstream media journalists writing their own stuff when [...]

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Amateur and Professional Bloggers vs Professional Journalists

Written by Chris F. Masse on December 5, 2007 — Leave a Comment

Felix Salmon (the best finance blogger on Earth):
[...] It’s true that blogs are capable of bringing down politicians, just like newspapers. But financial blogs don’t have anything like the same kind of influence that the big political blogs have, and as a result newspapers find it easy to ignore them – that’s going to change [...]

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Blogs are taking over the other Web-based publications.

Written by Chris F. Masse on June 26, 2007 — Leave a Comment

Tech Crunch’s Mike Arrington (who is furious at a CNET writer):
Most of the popular blogs, all of which started out as one-person shops, have now hired separate sales staff to handle sales. We have, Om has, etc. Hell, that’s the main reason we are working with FM Publishing, so that we don’t have to talk [...]

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