Crawling the Web to Foretell Ecosystem Collapse


	Crawling the Web to Foretell Ecosystem Collapse

JICWyllie

5-1-2009 6:10 AM

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1-public opinion, 1-self-signification, 2-change, 2-trend, 3-intl, 3-reported

JICWyllie says:

Trend alert. A new beast is emerging into a changed knowledge ecology. Cognitive Edge and Open Intelligence are both early examples.

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