Comments on: The wisdom of crowds is lacking http://aaronmentele.com/2007/01/10/the-wisdom-of-crowds/ personal blog of Aaron Mentele, web developer and partner at Electric Pulp Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:22:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Aaron Mentele http://aaronmentele.com/2007/01/10/the-wisdom-of-crowds/comment-page-1/#comment-7886 Aaron Mentele Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:32:14 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2007/01/10/the-wisdom-of-crowds/#comment-7886 I almost included the sharing option in google reader - I followed Scoble's shared items for a while and could see an aggregation being valuable. I still think it's too easy to share or vote up an article's relevance though. Google search is certainly more relevant - if only it would add age of content into the equation. I like the idea of blending search relevance and 'blogosphere' relevance and bookmarking relevance and a few other 'relevances' together with personal preferences - the stuff that would pour out would taste a lot better. I almost included the sharing option in google reader – I followed Scoble’s shared items for a while and could see an aggregation being valuable. I still think it’s too easy to share or vote up an article’s relevance though. Google search is certainly more relevant – if only it would add age of content into the equation. I like the idea of blending search relevance and ‘blogosphere’ relevance and bookmarking relevance and a few other ‘relevances’ together with personal preferences – the stuff that would pour out would taste a lot better.

]]> By: Garrick Van Buren http://aaronmentele.com/2007/01/10/the-wisdom-of-crowds/comment-page-1/#comment-7885 Garrick Van Buren Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:24:32 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2007/01/10/the-wisdom-of-crowds/#comment-7885 Aaron - Digg is a poor example of the 'wisdom of crowds' phenomenon - because of it's transparency. To harness WoC, there's a required independence among the actors and an inability to communicate between one another. Google is a closer example. Though not perfect as I mention in <a href="http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/digg-dumb-deep-down" rel="nofollow">my post on the subject</a>. Aaron – Digg is a poor example of the ‘wisdom of crowds’ phenomenon – because of it’s transparency. To harness WoC, there’s a required independence among the actors and an inability to communicate between one another.

Google is a closer example. Though not perfect as I mention in my post on the subject.

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