Collective Intelligent Wisdom of Crowds

Nate Combs of TERRA NOVA points to several opinions on the wisdom of crowds and collective intelligence. One nice distinction, by Henry Jenkins:

The Wisdom of Crowds model focuses on isolated inputs: the Collective Intelligence model focuses on the process of knowledge production. The gradual refinement of the Wikipedia would be an example of collective intelligence at work.

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