Wisdom of Crowds

The idea that a "crowd" of people, working together, focused on a project or issue, will collectively produce a better product or solution that the isolated individual efforts of the group members.
==References and further reading==
* James Surowiecki (2004). The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations Little, Brown ISBN 0-316-86173-1
* Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). Crowds. A moving-picture of democracy. Doubleday, Page & Company. Available from Project Gutenberg at , retrieved May 2005.
* Gustave Le Bon (1895). The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. Available from Project Gutenberg at .
* Steven Johnson, Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software (2002) Scribner, ISBN 0-684-86876-8
* Cass R. Sunstein, Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge (2006) Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195189280
==External links==
* James Surowiecki - Independent Individuals and Wise Crowds Audio interview from IT Conversations
* James Surowiecki 28 Meg MP3 File Audio presentation at SXSW Conference 2006
* Wired Magazine Look Who's Crowdsourcing¨
* C/Net NewsTech lessons learned from the wisdom of crowds¨
*Openeur - Scientific Blog about Open Innovation & Entrepreneurship
* CrowdRules Do-it-yourself site that allows creation of challenges that conform to all elements suggested by Surowiecki
* Information, Éthique Rationnelle et Intelligence Collective Rational behavior redefined on the basis of expected and observed use of logical language
* Game Tycoon Using Games to Tap Collective Intelligence. Part 2 of the article.
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