I ran across this great image on FaceBook (credit kblabs)
This reminded me of a concept I’ve been mulling around for awhile.
The so-called “wisdom of crowds” has been widely discussed, and is central to the opinion gap that drives real value in local search. However, crowds consistently exhibit predictable “follower style behavior”. The notion of “collective opinion” is not nearly as interesting as the notion of finding the (small number of) voices that are valuable to me. (more…)
