{"id":819,"date":"2007-05-24T16:14:36","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T22:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=819"},"modified":"2007-05-24T16:14:36","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T22:14:36","slug":"more_words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"More words!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feel free to roll around in them like a pig in &#8230; clover:<\/p>\n<p>In Strategy &#038; Business, I have an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/press\/article\/07204?gko=b7f91-1876-26241227\">article<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/media\/file\/sb47_07204.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) about the application of &#8220;peer production&#8221; to business innovation. The title the magazine gave the piece is &#8220;The Ignorance of Crowds,&#8221; but it&#8217;s really more about the weaknesses, or limitations, of crowds. I argue that peer production works well for manifold, time-consuming tasks that don&#8217;t require a lot of coordination among workers but that it&#8217;s not going to help you come up with a great new idea or give a product the kind of polish that often creates a hit in the market.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest edition of the Financial Times Digital Business <a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.ft.com\/?section=digital\">podcast<\/a>, I look at Microsoft&#8217;s prospects, asking the all-important question: What exactly does Microsoft have in common with Barry Manilow?<\/p>\n<p>In another <a href=\"http:\/\/conversationhub.com\/2007\/05\/15\/nicholas-carr-interview\/\">podcast<\/a>, I talk to Supernova impresario Kevin Werbach about why we shouldn&#8217;t confuse the Net&#8217;s effect on business with its effect on culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feel free to roll around in them like a pig in &#8230; clover: In Strategy &#038; Business, I have an article (pdf) about the application of &#8220;peer production&#8221; to business innovation. The title the magazine gave the piece is &#8220;The Ignorance of Crowds,&#8221; but it&#8217;s really more about the weaknesses, or limitations, of crowds. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}