Collective Wisdom
September 13, 2005
I know that the title is pretty much the same on my latest entry on the other blog, but this entry is totally different. Yes we are still talking about collective wisdom but not on how can my university implement it without costing its fortune.
With so many blogs scattered out there and diverse in interest and focus, we currently have a very very very massive collective wisdom system (which I would prefer to say “Knowledge Base”). I called it “wisdom”, not just information, because every people dedicated on writing and maintaining his/her blog is an affectionate lover on the subject they wrote. Yes of course we still have splog and whinners that writes how their life sucks, but even if we only count 10% of blogger population as “affectionate loving”, we still have alot.
For me it seems, this is the biggest and the most accurate (not to mention up-to-date) knowledge base in the world.
September 13, 2005 at 2:26 am
You bring up an intersting point. There are countless sources of knowledge out there in the form of blogs from all over the world. The trick, I would say, is figuring out who’s knowledge you wish to share in. How would we have time to take it all in otherwise. Of course, this then brings us to an interesting situation in which the people who share the same views are reading only those people with whom those views are shared. Thereby preventing the knowledge of others with different views from enlightening those who’s views could possibly use some enlightening. Not that I’m saying there’s always a right and wrong side to each point of view, but certainly there usually are always two sides to a point of view. But then there are people like me, who don’t really add much in the way of useful knowledge, but rather pollute the blogging community with a stream of blather that relates to very little.
But as I was saying, I agree, there is a wealth of knowledge at our very fingertips. I think that’s a pretty wonderful thing.
September 13, 2005 at 1:39 pm
Yes definitely. While in the past we have a ‘dark’ ages where information is not freely distributed, now we have ‘golden’ ages where information can be freely distributed.
That somehow created a new problems. We have too many information at hand and thus makes it harder to separate which information is good and which information doesn’t correlate at all on the problem at hands.