Web 2.0 has been all the rage on the InterWeb (for you not-in-the-know, web 2.0 [wiki] is a buzzword for web-based communities or user-created contents)
Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users blog had a post a while ago about distinguishing "wisdom of crowds" from "dumbness of crowds".
"Collective intelligence" is a pile of people writing Amazon book reviews.
"Dumbness of Crowds" is a pile of people collaborating on a wiki to collectively author a book.(Not that there aren't exceptions, but that's just what they are--rare exceptions for things like reference books. I'm extremely skeptical that a group will produce even a remotely decent novel, for example. Most fiction suffers even with just two authors.)
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Beyond cool.
Nice try.
'fake. It’s just particle physics. There’s no way you could produce that in a day, or even a week, not to mention the amount of animal cruelty at running those sheep into the ground.
Nice try.'
Really? You think so? Then tell me how the Egyptian pyramids were built?
To YOU it may be fake. To YOU it may be unachievable. The majority of the earth's population is are lazier than they used to be. Nowadays, hard work is something to put in a museum. It simply is too rare NOT to be gaped at. It's almost too rare to be believed.
But some of the ancient spirit still remains.
By the way, that's not animal cruelty. That's no different from how normal shepherding is...sheep run around a lot. That's what they do. It's normal for them, the same way it is for us to go jogging.