The bees’ rules for decision-making are: seek a diversity of options, encourage a free competition among ideas, and use an effective mechanism to narrow choices National Geographic Magazine on Swarm Behavior and Collective Intelligence
Is There Wisdom in Crowds? – A New York Times Op-Ed article by Roger Cohenand an “open to the crowd” version
Freakonomics blog just moved to New York Timesbonus: prediction markets a separate category on their blogroll!
The Journal of Prediction Markets, Volume 1, Number 2 is out!
Call it Occam’s razor, minimization of information entropy, or just KISS principle. Call it ‘less is more’, usability or just common sense. The question is, are the currently available prediction markets web services compliant with the era of attention economics? Are we able to attract a critical mass of users, thereby surpassing the tipping point …
AssignmentZero: tons of interviews on crowdsourcing and wisdom of crowds, by an experiment on open-source journalismJames Surowiecki is featured, too.
The movement formalized in the two recent Open Coffee Club Athens meetings rapidly evolved into a more concrete scheme, aiming at giving shape and voice in the latent community of greek start-ups. The open collaborative blog just launched under a declarative text which I was privileged to contribute. A translation is provided hereafter. The new …
To blog or not to blog: Dialogue on an academic’s dilemma
I was lucky enough to touch and feel the ultimate gadget a couple of days ago in Miami Apple Store. However, yesterday Plaisio Computers unexpectedly announced that today iPhone will be available for all greek fans to take a closer look. Even if Apple has given no chance to European customers to get a fully …
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