Comments on: Newspapers and social currency http://huddlemind.com/2008/08/05/newspapers-and-social-currency/ in.game strategy Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:38:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Shane Smith http://huddlemind.com/2008/08/05/newspapers-and-social-currency/#comment-2167 Shane Smith Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:55:10 +0000 http://huddlemind.com/?p=307#comment-2167 “The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.” This quote goes behind my ramblings against google and the collective mind. If you're searching google for all of its user-generated content, aren't you only as smart as the next fool? Journalists are employed (hopefully) for being smart and writing down their ideas well. What about the average joe in front of his computer? What about you and I? Who are the new-age gatekeepers of truth and logic, and who's in charge of moderating it all? Answer : the next fool. I like the implication of Huxleys infinite monkeys theorem in the picture :) Who's going to lead the monkeys? If we're all, for the most part, equal peers on the internet...how can we designate a leader? “The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.”

This quote goes behind my ramblings against google and the collective mind. If you’re searching google for all of its user-generated content, aren’t you only as smart as the next fool? Journalists are employed (hopefully) for being smart and writing down their ideas well. What about the average joe in front of his computer? What about you and I? Who are the new-age gatekeepers of truth and logic, and who’s in charge of moderating it all? Answer : the next fool.

I like the implication of Huxleys infinite monkeys theorem in the picture :) Who’s going to lead the monkeys? If we’re all, for the most part, equal peers on the internet…how can we designate a leader?

]]> By: Maximillian Kaizen http://huddlemind.com/2008/08/05/newspapers-and-social-currency/#comment-2159 Maximillian Kaizen Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:27:15 +0000 http://huddlemind.com/?p=307#comment-2159 Provocative mr Setzer :)..goes that persistent point of what allows for PRODUCTIVE mass collaboration. It STILL requires leadership: Facilitation / curatorship by a someone who guides the process is imperative or it all goes into reactive self-reflective static and slowly subsides into lowest common denominator. (says the opinionated Max) Provocative mr Setzer :)..goes that persistent point of what allows for PRODUCTIVE mass collaboration. It STILL requires leadership:
Facilitation / curatorship by a someone who guides the process is imperative or it all goes into reactive self-reflective static and slowly subsides into lowest common denominator.
(says the opinionated Max)

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