Owen, Surowiecki gave an excellent talk covering the topics of the book at CTC05. You can view the streamed archive here: http://www.collaborationloop.com/blogs/ctc-ramp-up-surowiecki-2.htm
My interest has been chiefly in trying to leverage the recommendations to make professional (programmatic) collaboration more effective. Cheers, Andy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Owen Densmore Sent: Mon 6/5/2006 10:02 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Friam Subject: [FRIAM] Amazon.com: The Wisdom of Crowds: Books: James Surowiecki I've been reading this critter: http://tinyurl.com/hexhe .. and am interested in its application to social modeling, and possibly business/organizational modeling. The thesis is that good decisions can be made by crowds if they are: - Diverse - Independent - Decentralized - Good method for aggregating the results. I started on the book a while back while discouraged after the democrats shot themselves in the foot the last election. Thinking crowds were stupid, I was surprised a bit by the author's thesis. Anyone read it? Have opinions? Got ideas how to apply it to community modeling? -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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