[FRIAM] Amazon.com: The Wisdom of Crowds: Books: James Surowiecki

[Bill Eldridge]

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
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