Tag: Social information processing

Smart Swarm

  • August 30, 2010 at 7:58 am

  • How can ants help us solve complex problems but, using the same technique, end up walking in an endless circle for the rest of their lives? Why can crowds be much smarter, and at the same time more stupid, than any individual? In Smart Swarm Peter Miller explains how lessons from the natural world have already changed [...]

Social media: peripheral impact measurement

  • September 8, 2008 at 10:05 am

  • It’s fairly easy to gauge the impact of a blog on a discussion by the quantity and content of comments, backlinks etc. But I am a lazy blogger: I don’t write very often (it doesn’t occur to me to, I don’t have anything to add, or I don’t have confidence in my opinion). But I [...]