Relevant resources; Mass Collaboration

This post focuses on the concept of crowdsourcing and mass collaboration.. Crowdsourcing is a concept, in which the knowledge and talents of a group of people is leveraged to create content and solve problems. This online article on Read-Write-Web explains by using many examples how this is done.

"Art isn't made by committee. Great design isn't made by consensus. True wisdom isn't captured from a crowd."

This quote comes from this interesting article, which eloquently attacks the "Wisdom of Crowds" principle as it is conceived by many. Another critic of the Wisdom of the Crowds principle is Andrew Keen ("Cult of the Amateur"), who debates his opponent David Weinberger ("Everything is Miscellaneous") in this Wall Street Journal article. The latter (Weinberger) is interviewed about his book here.

Common Wisdom is a paper by Law Professor Yochai Benkler. He explains the benefits of peer producing information goods that can be used and improved by others, and how this happens.