This was posted by Peter Jackson's official "The Hobbit" Blog. It seems to correlate to a lot of the things we're talking about, its essentially someone remixing the LOTR films. I just find it amazing that it could get noticed by the film makers and then reposted to his several hundrad thousand followers.
A really interesting article about a NYT feature that allowed readers to come up with plans to balance the budget. The Wisdom of Crowds concept came through as the crowd overwhelmingly came up with balanced non-partisan plans.
Came across this while searching in Google Blogs, this blogger tries to relate principles from "The Widsom of Crowds" to the never-ending Mac vs. PC debate
I subscribe to three print publications, ESPN, NYT, and the New Yorker. All three now allow me to get the latest issue on my iPad long before the print one arrives at my door.