http://richardshow.org/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:00:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://richardshow.org/blog/2008/01/31/smart-mobs/ http://richardshow.org/blog/2008/01/31/smart-mobs/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:31:14 +0000 Richard http://richardshow.org/blog/2008/01/31/smart-mobs/ Strongly related to James Surowiecki’s concept of The Wisdom of Crowds is Howard Rheingold’s concept Smart Mobs. (The two seminal books that presented these concepts, were published in 2004 and 2002 respectively.) To try and succinctly represent this concept and criticisms I selected two articles from edge. The first is an interview with Howard Rheingold, and the second is a criticism of web-collective-wisdom concepts/theories by Jaron Lanier. (Note that the last link is to Lanier’s Wikipedia page, which he criticizes in the article – here’s his home page.)

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