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I'm reminded of Kesey having trouble getting into a rock 'n roll concert at the Cow Palace. American Idol has nothing to do with Lennon & Dylan, but more to do with Don Kirschner's work in creating the Monkees. (Before the Monkees thought they were a real group, though to his credit, Nesmith was brilliant in his work on the Repo Man soundtrack). So popurl's missed a diabetes development. Most mainstream media is busy covering Brangelina in Namibia and misses the slaughter in Africa of thousands every day. Come to think of it, I didn't see anything on the diabetes issue, and I peruse the NY Times, LA Times, IHT, CNN and a few blogs. David Mirly wrote: I have not personally read the book but it is on my list. However, I did recently read this article which focuses on the negative results of collective thinking. It does give a mention or two to positive uses of crowd thinking though.http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html On Jun 5, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: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============================================================ 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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