Web 2.0 Needs Sound Sources
Ulf von Rauchhaupt features in FAZ (26.1.2006) Web 2.0 ideas and identifies two categories where the so-called wisdom of the crowds sums up for a better knowledge: an Ebay-style and a Wikipedia-style mechanism. With Ebay an economic supply and demand scheme leads to the best price, a statistical average by the many users. With Wikipedia, statistically, mistakes average out. But there are further problems like the credibility of sources. Rauchhaupt comes to the conclusion that Web 2.0 applications are powerful tools to foster knowledge but they only work with a sound base of (public funded) science.
BTW: Rauchhaupt's article is essentially a Web 2.0 product as Internet users could add comments and inspiration to a pre-print web version of his article scheduled for print in the daily FAZ.
BTW: Rauchhaupt's article is essentially a Web 2.0 product as Internet users could add comments and inspiration to a pre-print web version of his article scheduled for print in the daily FAZ.