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Wisdom of Crowds and Blogging

Posted By Darren Rowse 8th of July 2005 Pro Blogging News 0 Comments

While we’re on the topic of books (see a couple of posts back) – can I also recommend “The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations” (phew – quite the mouth full) a book by James Surowiecki. It’s a book I read while away and found particularly relevant to blogging (despite not mentioning it).

To paraphrase it terribly it is a book about how groups of people (crowds) have the ability to come up with some pretty amazing and resourceful solutions if in the right environment. It reminded me a lot of my Blogging in Formation – Lessons from a Goose series.

Disclaimer: Of course coming out of the ColdPlay concert at Crystal Palace in London a week or so back with 30,000 rather drunk 18 year olds all trying to get onto the platform of one train station I did have moments of doubt about the book!

About Darren Rowse
Darren Rowse is the founder and editor of ProBlogger Blog Tips and Digital Photography School. Learn more about him here and connect with him on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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  1. How very timely…. I’m currently dealing with a sticky situation (my online articles have been plagiarized in a published book), and I’ve invited my visitors to suggest possible ways of handling this:
    http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/07/im-a-published-author/

    It’s interesting to see the variety of suggestions, and it helps me to achieve greater clarity about the right path. So I do think there’s something to be said for the wisdom of crowds.

  2. A good friend of mine once said “No one is as good as all of us.” That phrase has become a bit of a motto for myself and the many advocates I work with.

    So many times I have witnessed a great deal of wisdom and strength in numbers.

    Being a bit of a “people pleaser” myself, I have found that although my fellow advocates and I maintain our own sites, as long as I *know* someone is out there working *with* me, I try harder and achieve more.

  3. You’re right Steve – the readers here at ProBlogger have been my most influential and rewarding ‘crowd’ of late. Quite inspiring to see what comes from their collective wisdom.

  4. ColdPlay, Coldplay :)

  5. I just love your weblog! Very nice post! Still you can do many things to improve it.

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