The Two Dimensions Of Collective Intelligence

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  Gary Ares / @...03/25/08 Report as spam
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  Like dots of resolution - the more the better

  My simplified view is that the more instances of implicit information, the better the image resolution. I tend to touch many pieces if information on the web, usually on the same general topic, each of these impressions is like another dot of resolution on the screen of life.

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  markporter200805/10/08 Report as spam
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  RE: The Two Dimensions Of Collective Intelligence

  Both are very important especially to those building, managing, and inventing the next generation of applications. Now more than ever the users are driving the requirements through participation. I would say one feeds the other. Through explicite participation one generates implicit data that can be used to then generate better and greater explicite data.

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  Cisco's Support Wiki (implicit data)

  I was introduced to implicit and explicit data by Craig Tobias of Cisco at a conference recently. He is using implicit data to drive changes in Cisco's customer support wiki which recently release that will soon house almost all of Cisco's customer support documentation.
  
  Craig said that implicit data is much closer to nature than computing has ever been in the past. Understand the climate, and the catalyst for promoting the growth of information will be key.