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Live Search New Homepage Design Is So Bizarre That It Might Just Work ( http://mashable.com/2008... )
Susan Beebe and Miguel23 liked this
This is awsome. I am willing to be this gimick works for them. - now here come all the MS haters with their comments. I will make a point to use Live only for a day.
- Miguel23
wow, that's a very novel approach to Search Engine design
- Susan Beebe
Michael Jordan 1987: 44pts Vs. Akeem's Rockets - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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The photo Owen wanted me to remove from Facebook - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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why??? is he the overweight dude?
- Miguel23
Why I don't like 'crowd sourcing' - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
Rishabh Mishra (p248), Magdalena Donea, Michael Sippey and 8 other people liked this
I left a Disqus comment... your fear of mob rule is exactly why I don't prescribe to many of your ideas. Micro-Management is the wave of the future. We are interested in a Niche market and not the PC world of the Democratic Party. I vote for the people that benefit the local population, not outside of the borders.
- Noah David Simon
damn! great commentary.
- Miguel23
well I think it's the only way to come to definitive results on certain debates... the term might be just a neologism, but it effectively communicates the concept of the "wisdom of crowds" in a single word.
- Nathan Chase
there is little wisdom in the mob and the crowd. our founders knew this. it is why we don't have a direct democracy and rather an electorate representative vote. the whole idea of web 2.0 is to fragment the mob... I would say it failed. Obama is the end result.
- Noah David Simon
The backformation of the word from 'outsourcing' (itself quite orwellian) sort of tips one off about the bias of the word towards those 'using' the crowds in question. IMO It's a pretty accurate term once you acknowledge the bias.
- Madsimian
The original "wisdom of the crowd," anecdote I heard had to do with a group of people each guessing how many beans were in a jar. No individual's guess came as close as did the average of all the guesses. One of the keys to this experiment in my mind is the fact that there was no information shared between individuals making guesses. It's a sort of proof that collaboration can lead to...
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- Kurtiss Hare
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@Kurtiss - Hard to believe NO individual came as close as the average. Especially since the average (assuming this is defined as "arithmetic mean") is skewed by wild outliers.
- James Joyner
@James: Yeah, it was an anecdote--no idea how truthful it is.
- Kurtiss Hare
lol... that made no sense Kurtiss Hare and neither does accepting the UN's decisions over our own local administrations. I'm so glad Reagan wouldn't sign any treaty that would cater to internationalist tyranny
- Noah David Simon
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