Sunday, March 28, 2010

Conventional wisdom

The blogger Anders Gustavsson have read Freakonomics and is discussing some interesting thoughts about conventional wisdom, and how people tend to believe things that the (their) majority believe in...

http://andersgustafsson.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/konventionell-visdom/
(in swedish)

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Crowdsourcing

This is old, but still interesting: Crowdsourcing. Picture databases such as Istockphoto.com and flickr are good examples of this. Instead of buying a picture from a professional, you now buy your picture (or use it for free if allowed) from anyone sharing their pictures. The special practice has converged into something everyone can be part of making money on... as long as you create pictures that someone else wants.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/crowds.html