"An increasing number of academics ... are concerned that Wikipedia is becoming a stronghold for cranks: people who anonymously submit and edit entries on pet subjects to bolster the credibility

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"...if each person believes that the crowd is wiser than he is (as would typically be correct) then they will only echo back what they think is the crowd consensus, leading to "groupthink&qu

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"Yesterday a story made the frontpage of Digg [...] As of right now the story has 2860 Diggs but the original submitter has also posted a retraction on Digg." It's all about the fact-checkin

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Human-recommendation-based searching? *sniff* *sniff* I smell... *sniff*... Web2.0 memes! Nice idea, but still a fair way off, IMHO, at least in fully-implemented and genuinly useful forms. We shall s

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Nice little explanation for those who haven't read james surowiecki's 'wisdom of crowds' about what types of crowds actually increase wisdom, rather than dumb them down.

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THE 'COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE' OF MEDIA FANS

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Caught up in trying to get record deals and promote their music, musicians are forgetting a key piece.

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