Pierre Levy, an expert on collective intelligence, is interviewed in this video by Howard Rheingold. He explains that he views collective intelligence is a combination of filtering the knowledge stream and signaling to others via hyperlinks the value of your messages in the knowledge stream. Notice his words->"you are organizing the memory for others". This is exactly what you are doing in this project with tags and later with your wiki research followed by your videos - you are librarians !
Pierre Levy, an expert on collective intelligence, is interviewed in this video by Howard Rheingold. He explains that he views collective intelligence is a combination of filtering the knowledge stream and signaling to others via hyperlinks the value of your messages in the knowledge stream. Notice his words->"you are organizing the memory for others". This is exactly what you are doing in this project with tags and later with your wiki research followed by your videos - you are librarians !
"The internet has changed the lives of people around the world. It has never before been easier to acquire various types of information and to reach people around the world by entering social online networks, such as Facebook. However, the infinity of the internet also leads to information overflow. Likewise, the majority of social online networks address private people, oftentimes leaving the opportunities from which the professional world could benefit unused. Thus, modern web tools which filter information and social networks that enable people to easily communicate, network and share knowledge with each other in the professional context are a tremendous help.
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The director of the White House war on drugs said on Monday that Internet videos that show people getting high pose a dangerous threat to teenagers by encouraging them to use drugs and alcohol.
It would be ineresting to see a STUDY on this. While I agree it is not good for kids to see -- we also need to see correlation before we jump into things.
I still think that a rating system for youtube and online videos is needed to aid in filtering for age appropriateness.
Simply put, the Web can do the information superhighway thing better than any
on-line service. Heads up, Mac managers. All those WAN service projects you have
stalled because you couldn't afford to build your own WAN infrastructure and
were afraid to trust AOL's and CompuServe's just became doable. Put them on the
front burner now. Here's why.
Internet and the
World-Wide Web will kill on-line services by making them unnecessary
Information Superhighway
Web servers and communications applications must be built with available tools,
requiring a substantial commitment of company resources and experienced staff
investment will pay off
computing infrastructure is largely transparent and highly distributed
Web users don't have to pay for this infrastructure directly, nor are they
penalized for trying to access it at the highest possible bandwidth.
nearly free
You could make operational or interface changes whenever you desired and not
have to worry about propagating them through an on-line service's restricted
forum-management tools.