Comments on: Daily Diigo Discoveries 11/18/2008 http://philbaumann.com/2008/11/17/daily-diigo-discoveries-11182008/ Dream. But don't fall out of bed. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:57:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: philbaumann http://philbaumann.com/2008/11/17/daily-diigo-discoveries-11182008/#comment-283 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:01:13 +0000 http://philbaumann.com/2008/11/17/daily-diigo-discoveries-11182008/#comment-283 Kirsti,

Good question. I think there's some overlap between crowdsourcing and wisdom of the crowd. I view crowdsourcing as way to gather ideas or solutions to a problem one person or group has to solve. The wisdom of the crow is a kind of collective result of larger collaborative efforts. That's just a rough stab I'm making.

I suppose the trick with crowd-wisdom is validity. How do we validate the wisdom of the crowd? That's a difficult problem, especially if the crowd is one of the few sources of potential wisdom.

Hmmm, some more thinking on this is worthwhile. Thanks for stopping by.

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Interesting comment about crowdsourcing….. so is this like a 'harvesting of thoughts' where collaborative work is more like putting collective ideas to work…. I guess I am interested in the distinction….. especially as it pertains to how good ideas rise above the 'not so good' ones….

Kirsti
http://www.syndicom.com/category/blog

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