Hi Folks,
In his book, The Wisdom of Crowds, James Suroweicki says that to
effectively harness the collective intelligence of a crowd - such as
the Web - there needs to be the right balance between:
- making individual knowledge globally and collectively useful
- allowing individual knowledge to remain resolutely specific
and local
It occurs to me that the microformats approach has found the right
balance:
- microformats provide the hooks that enable individual knowledge
to be collected, aggregated, and processed
- simultaneously, at the local level web page developers are
empowered to express their individual knowledge in a fashion
that is best suited to their specific problem
Outstanding!
/Roger
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