Posted in diversity, Politics on Sep 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
Bill sent me this article that describes how voters have a systematic bias regarding some economic effects. The article questions the fact that voters in general have a bias for anti-market, anti-foreign, anti-efficiency loss of work and a pessimistic outlook. This systematic bias of course would lead to bad decisions since the errors do not [...]
Posted in crowdsourcing, diversity, Politics, social networks on Sep 16th, 2007 No Comments »
First have a look at the video: The way I see it the idea behind this video is that until now images have been used for a lot of bad reasons. Their message on their website is: So ask yourself this. If you had the entire world’s attention for just a few minutes, what story [...]
Posted in crowdsourcing, diversity, governance, Social Software on Aug 29th, 2007 No Comments »
I remember as a small child that, when you had taken some cookies from the cookie jar you were not supposed to take, your mother somehow always knew. I suppose this must feel the same for the people that got caught by the Wikiscanner. This is an application that relates the IP adresses from the [...]
Posted in diversity, long tail, recommandation on Jul 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
This is such an interesting example of how our new production of information can go wrong:This is an interview with Christine Boutin, the French minister of housing, about the conspiracy that George W Bush is behind the attack on the WTC towers on 9/11. A small translation of the first part goes like this: I [...]
Posted in diversity, governance, research, Social Software on Jun 24th, 2007 No Comments »
The crowd can be smart and the crowd can be stupid. Part of the discussion on Brittanica deals with what the advantage is of social software and iCrowds. And when results are stupid or irrelevant. IS there for example a thing like a citizen scientist? Open source seems to work great: Linux, Samba, Apache are all [...]
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