Comments on: Stigmergy – rss, ants, my brain and the Read/Write Web http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2008/03/28/stigmergy-%e2%80%93-rss-ants-my-brain-and-the-readwrite-web/ a place where I 'think out loud' and share stuff online Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:13:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Twitter, cursebird and the Anthropologist | Learning with the Fang http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2008/03/28/stigmergy-%e2%80%93-rss-ants-my-brain-and-the-readwrite-web/comment-page-1/#comment-2173 Twitter, cursebird and the Anthropologist | Learning with the Fang Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:19:34 +0000 http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2008/03/28/stigmergy-%e2%80%93-rss-ants-my-brain-and-the-readwrite-web/#comment-2173 [...] At least one punter out there shares some of my enthusiam for cursebird’s window into the global brain. billmerrill : Watching fucking cursebird instead of dumbass teevee, better election coverage. [...] [...] At least one punter out there shares some of my enthusiam for cursebird’s window into the global brain. billmerrill : Watching fucking cursebird instead of dumbass teevee, better election coverage. [...]

]]> By: Paul Dalby http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2008/03/28/stigmergy-%e2%80%93-rss-ants-my-brain-and-the-readwrite-web/comment-page-1/#comment-2109 Paul Dalby Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:13:54 +0000 http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2008/03/28/stigmergy-%e2%80%93-rss-ants-my-brain-and-the-readwrite-web/#comment-2109 This stimulates a few thoughts. One is how do we harness the Wisdom of Crowds (James Surowiecki) to aggregate information from groups to improve decision making. How do we find the ant tracks in what can seem like a bewildering quantity of seemingly random thoughts on the metaphorical scraps of paper? Is Google one tool for finding these tracks? What would make Google better at finding the tracks? And can we think of a more attractive word than Stigmergy? This stimulates a few thoughts. One is how do we harness the Wisdom of Crowds (James Surowiecki) to aggregate information from groups to improve decision making. How do we find the ant tracks in what can seem like a bewildering quantity of seemingly random thoughts on the metaphorical scraps of paper? Is Google one tool for finding these tracks? What would make Google better at finding the tracks?

And can we think of a more attractive word than Stigmergy?

]]> By: Dave the Lifekludger http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2008/03/28/stigmergy-%e2%80%93-rss-ants-my-brain-and-the-readwrite-web/comment-page-1/#comment-2108 Dave the Lifekludger Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:06:51 +0000 http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2008/03/28/stigmergy-%e2%80%93-rss-ants-my-brain-and-the-readwrite-web/#comment-2108 And the whole thing falls in a heap if there's no 'openness' Dave And the whole thing falls in a heap if there’s no ‘openness’

Dave

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