Collective Intelligence-Gov, Politics and Employment

Comment

Comment by Terry Freedman on June 9, 2008 at 11:11am

I've written an article about how I judged the videos here.

Design & technical quality:
Very attractive visuals, and mostly relevant, with exciting music. However, the photo used to illustrate the idea that collective intelligence can lead to predictions being made showed gambling chips, so the implication is that the predictions are actually pure guesswork. Also, I couldn't see what the pictures showing the development of the iPod had to do with collective intelligence. And the music, although interesting, did not seem especially relevant either: "message in a bottle" is a cry for help! The text on the screen was a bit too wordy some of the time. Smooth transitions and the overall professionalism made the video easy to watch though.
Synthesis and Construction of Ideas:
Good synthesis, but I have to say that I found it a bit superficial For example, there is one part which says that in the business world predictions can now be made. Well, as far as I know businesses have been predicting things since commerce was first invented! Besides, surely what is important in this context is the quality of the predictions, presumably improved because of the fact that more people can contribute to them? Also, I found the section on the iPod to be irrelevant.I think the problem was that the words were not really backed up by the video, and perhaps snippets of interviews rather than just picture after picture would have helped to bring out the (difficult to show) concepts better.

Comment by kahlai on June 3, 2008 at 8:32am

awesome!

Comment by Julie Lindsay on May 25, 2008 at 9:31pm

Well done Fiona! I really like your mix of images and thoughtful quotes. Good for you.