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joshua : The Bottom is Not Enough - on peer production
Linkorama : Bottom up demands time - The bottom-up hive mind will always take us much further than even seems possible. It keeps surprising us in this regard. Given enough time, dumb things can be smarter than we think. At that same time, the bottom-up hive mind will never take us to our end
deusx : Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - "I think the top-down function of editors -- to select, prune, guide, solicit, shape, and guide the results from the crowd -- is essential to excellence."
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Free-form Collaboration - Organizations are beginning to deploy technologies that enable free-form collaboration. This type of collaboration allows people to exchange ideas and information with co-workers, business partners, and customers in a dynamic, open-ended manner. Anyone ta
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22 month ago
Linkorama : Harnessing Collective Intelligence - With the help of our algorithms the community can outperform the market -- something most analysts can't do. That's not user-generated content, that's a cognitive community exhibiting super intelligent behavior.
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29 month ago
Linkorama : The Emergent vs. Deliberate Debate - The upheavals and outcome of all this is as unclear as it is significant because enterprises are primarily organized around central control and focused innovation, two things easily disrupted by this shift of control.
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33 month ago
Linkorama : The Probabilistic Age - hese systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale.
deusx : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - "these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale."
jkottke : Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs - Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs: they're probabilistic systems "which sacrifice perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale".
Paul Hammond : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale
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36 month ago
Linkorama : The Wiki and the Blog - Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Steven Johnson on Web2 - Software upgrades promise to turn the Internet into a lush rain forest of information teeming with new life
jkottke : Steven Johnson's thoughts on Web 2.0 - Steven Johnson's thoughts on Web 2.0. He compares it to a rain forest, with the information flow through the web being analogous to the efficient nutrient flow through a forest. "Essentially, the Web is shifting from an international library of interlinke
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kellan : World of Warcraft plague.. - Just like Blizzard! Blame it on de trolls, can't get no respect, man. #
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37 month ago
Linkorama : The Urban Long Tail - But I've put together a new column for Discover that looks at the long tail question in the context of cities.
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38 month ago
Andy Baio : Kevin Kelly on the people powered future of the web - great article, but I spotted one small goof; there was no "www" when he met with ABC in 1989
Linkorama : We Are the Web - Kevin Kelly: Our Machine is born. It's on.
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44 month ago
Andy Baio : Metafilter Tags, 24 hours later - unbelievable explosion as Mefi users tag all their old posts
plasticbag : Now even Metafilter is using tags - by the time we're talking about our work in this area I wonder if it'll still be fashionable? - The implementation here though is a bit odd - you can only tag stuff that you've written, and there doesn't appear to be any immediate personal benefit for doing so, except maybe self-promotion...
ricmac : Metafilter DoesTags - It's a tagalicious blog world right now... glad to see "ART" is the biggest tag on Metafilter. (via waxy.org)
cameron : Metafilter | Tags - Metafilter gets categorizionized
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cameron : Pixelfest collaborative artwork - emergent art, one pixel at a time
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46 month ago
cameron : Smaller picture analysis - Removing noise from emergent behavior makes for a pretty robust system
plasticbag : Visualisations of the Typophile Smaller Image Generation Experiment - Tom Rankin shows various visualisations of the emergent upper and lower case alphabets and numerals that came out of the Typophile Smaller Image pixel-by-pixel experiment.
Paul Hammond : iMarlin :: Typophile Smaller Image Generation Experiment - generating some graphics from the data that was displayed on the site
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plasticbag : Pixelfest collaborative artwork - The latest contender in the collaborative pixel artwork stakes is Pixelfest - where each day each person can change the colour of one pixel. Very slowly an image is emerging.
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46 month ago
plasticbag : The Smaller Picture by Kevan Davis - So the Smaller Picture has been in my head a bit recently - individuals choose whether a pixel is on or off and over time a picture emerges. This picture represents the collective visual understanding of the concept...
cameron : The Smaller Picture - Emergent photos of common items. None seem to have converged yet.
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cameron : 10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris
jimray : 10x10 - Visualizing the news [via wired.com]
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cameron : Wikipedia 'to make universities obsolete'
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48 month ago
cameron : Kevin Kelly -- Chapter 2: Hive Mind - Discusses the emergent simulator experiment
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48 month ago
cameron : Typophile | The Smaller Picture
Tom Coates : Because Cam and I spent ages trying to remember where the link was: Typophile's Smaller Picture creates a font out of pure hive mindish groupthink - Because Cam and I spent ages trying to remember where the link was: Typophile's Smaller Picture creates a font out of pure hive mindish groupthink
jkottke : The Smaller Picture: collective typography - This is brilliant.
Paul Hammond : Typophile | The Smaller Picture - The collective consciousness of Typophile
Wayne Burkett : Typophile | The Smaller Picture - Hive-mind typography. Extremely cool. #
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