Back from ECAP 2008
June 26th, 2008 at 10:26 pm (Uncategorized)
Salvador@ECAP2008 (follow the link for the slides)
Sorry for my long absence. I’m that kind of man who can deal with only one task at a time, and I have had too many of them recently. I gave a talk on values in Marocco four weeks ago and some days later, I had the opportunity to express, in the ECAP 2008 conference, my hypotheses regarding the possibility of leveraging collective intelligence for knowledge creation through a « garden of ideas » structure like the one you are visiting.
I got very good feedbacks and I feel like having now a much clearer view of the whole process of knowledge creation « in the wild », i.e., with no peer-review !
As you will see, the slideshow is much more synthetic that the long abstract « Neither Wikipedia, nor Knol… » that you will find in the february 2008 archive.
However, in a new section, I have attemped to give a clear justification of the reason why we simply don’t need anymore an expert peer-review process since (a) prefiltering is useless and open to so many drawbacks and (b) postfiltering is so perfectly achieved by the wise crowd of readers.
Thanks for any comments and suggestions you could make.