Tag: independence

• SXSW Day Two: Tantek Çelik, Creating Building Blocks for Independents

  Tantek Çelik, Chief Technologist at Technorati, is shooting to enable the independents of the world. Building blocks are built by both experts and non-experts to advance the enablement of independents. Blogger did this in new ways. Publishing content on your own site and made extremely easily. Creative Commons is a building block as well, but […]

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  March 11, 2006

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  building blocks, community, empowerment, independence, SXSW2006

• SXSW Day Two: James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds

  James Surowiecki, staff writer at the New Yorker, speaks about the future of tapping into the wisdom of the crowd – Making a horseracing analogy to the wisdom of the crowds. As the odds go, so do the results. The idea is that based on the varied expertise of the crowds, the odds begin to […]

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  March 11, 2006

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  collective intelligence, community, diversity, independence, internet, James Surowiecki, New Yorker, SXSW2006