wisdom of crowds

Here's one more how-to book on using the wisdom of crowds or "the global brain" to harness creativity and innovation. I haven't read it but the amount of academic research has florished the last two yeas so this new book probably has some new ideas for business development managers.

I've been using del.icio.us for the last three years as my primary search tool. Google/Yahool are great for the generic stuff but for the meaningful stuff I use del.icio.us. Why? Easy, most of the bookmarks to web pages are intelligently filtered, noted, and tagged.

Hey, would you put crappy music on your ipod?

The Washington Post has an interesting article about the wisdom of crowds vs. the wisdom of the few. The sites mentioned in the article are using social software to create communities on the net that harness deep smarts.

"The Rise of Crowdsourcing" -

By Jeff Howe, Wired