http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/2007/05/03/socia
Rashmi Sinha raises some interesting points about the recent events on Digg. She comments:
Most noticeably, it fails the independence of members from one another test
- one of Suroweicki’s key criteria for the wisdom of crowds to be effective.
One wonders, also, how much Kathy Sierra’s recent experiences of being hounded on-line are also related to this failure of independence.
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