Some days you’re just berated with too much news, advice, or extraneous tidbits. If you’re like me, you decide to explore how you’re getting your information in a quest to kill the source of irrelevance.
A whole gradient of storytelling is under heavy development. On one end of the spectrum is the traditional form. This is the form of choice of the great orators like Homer, Shakespeare, and Garrison Keilor. On the opposite end is a completely interactive form of storytelling. Throughout this gradient we will see the lines blur [...]
After watching The Persuaders, I can’t help thinking about what Joseph Pine said about fundamental changes in the economy. In his TED video, Joseph says that we have moved from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy then to a service economy and on to an experience economy. Specialty products customized to suit a single [...]
So much has been written about collective intelligence, or crowdsourcing, yet we continue to question our collective intelligence. Why do we not trust information that has been contributed and reviewed by so many people? What makes one source credible and another not? What are experts saying about intelligence collectives such as Wikipedia?