collective intelligence

We worked together in thinking of the idea for our actual comic. We then had to figure out how to lay out the pictures and what the exact text would be. Working with Andrea was easy and beneficial. We worked well together and got our work done in a timely and efficient manner. I didn't particularly learn anything from this experience but it reminded me that in order to work collaboratively and cooperatively you need to be able compromise and put everyones ideas together in an appropriate way.

pg 130-135 and Confessions of an Aca/Fan

In the blog that we read this week, I was confused about a few things. One of the main things that I didn't understand was the difference between collective intelligence and "the Wisdom of Crowds" model. They talked about it at the beginning of the blog but it didn't really make much sense to me.

On page 116, I was surprised to find out how fast and how many people post things on Wikipedia. It is now considered a coordinating resource. I was also suprised to read on page 133 that a lot of people post things to Wikipedia becuase of a personal desire to do a good thing. I always assumed that people posted on it just to because they wanted to and they knew that information. I didn't stop to think that people were putting things on the web to boost their self-essteem and confidence.

chapters 3 and 4

In chapter four of Here Comes Everybody, websites such as myspace, facebook, and youtube are discussed. Their effects on human society and behavior have tremendously impacted our society as a whole. My question is do you think that humans, over time, will lose their ability to socially interact with other humans due to the surplus of online communication tools on the web?

I found it interesting and almost suprising that some business owners don't realize that technology and the world wide web is becoming and basically is a permanant staple in our society. You would think that business owners would be aware of this and immediately adjust to it in the most efficient way possible for their business to still thrive.

Information Society

The term information society means to me that we are living in a time and place where the amount of information that is available to an individual is almost unfathomable. There are so many different ways to retrieve informatin that you need and there are so many different resources that we are definitely living in an informatin society.