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Cognitive surplus - the context for 99nicu

Entry posted by %s September 4, 2010

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Cognitive surplus.

Have not heard about it? Not me either until I read this article in Wired.

Now I am reading the book "Cognitive surplus, creativity and generosity in a connected age". Clay Shirky outlines very interesting ideas. In fact, he explains why 99nicu has happened :eek:

The equation is:

Educated people, some free time, a motivation to share, the social nature of man and modern tools, these factors aggregate the cognitive surplus and create communities.

Like lolcats on ICanHasCheezburger.com. Or much more serious sites. Like 99nicu.org

Will write a full review later, just felt I wanted to share...

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Francesco Cardona 207

Posted October 7, 2010

Not quite the same topic but in nature about internet sites like 99nicu - and probably the idea behind the virtual nicu:

Should you crowdsource your medical problems?

http://www.slate.com/id/2270169/pagenum/all/#p2

Interesting especially the part of patients starting their own little informal drug trial.

Stefan Johansson

Stefan Johansson 1,027

Posted October 16, 2010

Very interesting links indeed!

(I had not come across crowdsourcing before (meaning "the process of seeking a problem's solution from a wide community"))

Much, but not all, of the contents at 99nicu is public. I wonder about the proportion of laymen browsing here? Wish it could be possible to find out.

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