When you’re sick and your health deteriorates, you go to the doctor, who tries to help you to get better. If this doesn’t help, you may end up in hospital where your doctor has an opportunity to figure out what’s wrong with you over a longer period of time. Failing which, the doctor may decide [...]
Posts Tagged ‘collective intelligence’
Crowdsourcing: from the Septuagint to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, collective intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Davos, diversity, Global Agenda Councils, InnoCentive, InnoCentive Solvers, Jeff Howe, LXX, Mechanical Turk, Septuagint, The World Economic Forum, Turk requesters, Turk workers, WEF
We’re Here to Bury Comments, Not to Praise Them
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in NarrativesTags: born digital, Chris Saad, collective intelligence, commenting engine, content and gestures, CrunchUp 2009, Digital Natives, digital technologies, Electric and synaptic technologies, Eric Blantz, Implicit information, information flows, internet evolution, James W. Carey, JS-Kit, Khris Loux, localised dialogue synatpticweb.org, Marshall McLuhan, moodle, nervous system, parallel channels, ReadWriteWeb, social constructionism, social graph, split and parallel dialogues, TechCrunch, the electrical network, The Synaptic Web, unified field of experience
In the beginning was Marshall McLuhan, who would have celebrated his 98th birthday these days, but more about him later. When I launched this blog almost two years ago, I decided not to accept comments: I observed how other blogs got inundated with horrific verbiage, often unrelated to the piece the comment was supposed to [...]