Then a bunch of really brilliant people say what they think. The
Artificial Intelligence aromas in the piece are summarily dissipated by
a few of the critics, but what's left has a lot of potential and has indeed
been coming together bit by bit as we speak.
The
problem with the Thinkquest model wasn't the cost of the prizes,
but the cost of the judging and maintenance. It became harder
to manage the vast amount of content and huge number of human
relationships. Hard to prevent abuse, fraud, hate speech. Hard
to assure fairness.
One possibility to do away with that bottleneck is obviously to do as
weblogs do: decentralize the tasks of content management, relationship
management, and reviewing. Let content and people sort themselves out.
Flemming Funch: "Is blogging Dialogue?
Well, in many ways the medium succeeds better in creating such a space
of dialogue than any other online communication method I can think of." What do you think? [] links to this post 11:15:41 AM
Bill Ives is
a new blogger but an experienced knowledge management consultant with a
background in educational psychology. Here are a couple recent posts by
him that I found especially interesting:
