In a blog about Hossein Eslamabolchi on the future of the network, Joho says "So long as I don't have to ever hear the phrase "wisdom mining"?

This was just too good to pass up. First we had data mining, then we had information mining, then there was knowledge mining. The logical next step is wisdom mining. Combining this with The Wisdom of Crowds and a buzzword generator I came up with the perfect mission statement for a web 2.0 company.

We're using Reed's Law synergies to leverage the collective wisdom of convergent communities.
We call it Wisdom Mining.


A small prize for the first sighting of this in the wild. And not the Montana DEQ Wisdom Mining District.

BTW. Hossein really doesn't get it. The whole interview was filled with bellhead thinking. It's as though the last 8 years never happened.


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