My favorite example of collective intelligence producing something useful out of many ordinary actions is reCaptcha.

“Thoughts”, because I don’t have time to do this right now, (although it shouldn’t take that long to pull together? Maybe half a day, at most?) and also to give a glimpse into to the sort of thinking I’d do walking the dog, in between having an initial idea about something to hack together, and actually doing it…

Are You Talking To Me? by cogdogblog

Having tinkered using Moowheel to visualise coauthors on references pulled from the OU's open repository (ORO) in Visualising CoAuthors in Open Repostory Online Papers, Part 1, to give a graphic which isn't really that useful or interesting (too cluttered), I thought I'd try out a couple of network visualisations using Many

In an earlier post on Disaggregating the Notion of PLEs #1 - PCVs: Personal (Portable?) Content Views, I showed how by using blog post tags and categories in the Digital Worlds uncourse blog experiment the original steady stream of posts could be disaggreated into various different co