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Wikipedia — Free Encyclopedia Surowiecki explains why the wisdom of crowds works and the factors necessary to make it work well (and how it sometimes breaks down). This anecdote begins the fascinating book The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki (2004), which documents that often a group as a whole has as good as or better information than any individual expert in that group. The correct weight was 1,198 pounds, and the average guess was 1,197 — more accurate than the winning estimate. www.jimkarpen.com /wikipedia.html   (725 words)

Theological Prospects for Mideast Peace The idea is to gather the collective wisdom of crowds. The Temple Mount (al Haram al Sharif) after a rare snowfall. www.dogchurch.org /scriptorium/wikipeace.html   (1313 words)

Om Malik : » The Battle for Reliance is over Far from the maddening crowds, there was a big brouhaha between the two brothers - Anil and Mukesh - jointly known as the Ambanis and the owners of Reliance Group, a $22.5 billion conglomerate, that is as indispensable to the Indian economy as Intel is to Silicon Valley. The empire was built by their father, a piss poor school teacher turned trader, with blood, sweat and tears. www.gigaom.com /2005/06/24/the-battle-for-reliance-is-over   (616 words)

CSIndy: Best Brats and Other World-ly Experience (October 21 - October 27, 1999) Far from the maddening crowds, on the corner of Tejon and Las Vegas, Grindewald German Delicatessen is a window to another world, where cheese is from Bavaria, the chocolate is from Switzerland, and the radio broadcasts German covers of Elvis songs. There's hardly room to sit down and enjoy a hearty lunch at one of the few tables tucked away behind rows and rows of food items, souvenirs and magazines, all from Germany. www.csindy.com /csindy/1999-10-21/best_food7.html   (206 words)

Far From The Maddening Crowds - Chicane - Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk Far From The Maddening Crowds - Chicane: Mix between dance and mellow but excellent Far From The Maddening Crowds - Chicane: Progressive debut Far From The Maddening Crowds - Chicane- Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk www.dooyoo.co.uk /music-records/far-from-the-maddening-crowds-chicane   (246 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Far from the Maddening Crowds: Music What encouraged me to purchase 'Far from the Maddening Crowds' was the strength of Chicane's second album 'Behind the Sun', which I bought beforehand and can also highly recommend. Having got it in July last year, 'Far from the Maddening Crowds' is still probably the most listened to of all my CDs and quite simply a masterpiece. Personally I believe this is excellent music to have on in the car or to listen to at home after a particularly stressful day, chilling you out while at the same time not sending you to sleep. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000024UPZ   (1364 words)

CD Review: Chicane, "Far From the Maddening Crowds" Far From the Maddening Crowds is a collection of ambient dance tracks which would make sense as DJ white-labels, but unless you're a hard-core electronic music / rave fan I wouldn't entirely recommend the album. Pretty apt title for this disc, considering it's the crowd factor that dictates why I don't go to clubs nearly as much as I used to. But hey -- now, thanks to Chicane, you can have a rave right in your own living room. dropd.com /issue/95/CD/Chicane   (271 words)

Telegraph Travel New Zealand: Far from the maddening crowds It is a place of elements, where your memories are suffused with rushing wind and running water - from the soft lapping of mountain lakes, to the burbling of trout-filled rivers down to the crashing seas where porpoises and penguins are happy to let you share their habitat. There are few places left on earth where you can walk down a five-mile beach with only your footprints and the surf boom for company and New Zealand is far less stultifying than a beach-hut hideaway in the Caribbean or the Maldives. Chosen as your Favourite Holiday Destination, New Zealand is the silent type: take the trouble to get to know her and you will discover hidden depths. www.telegraph.co.uk /travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2004/10/16/etawnz.xml&sSheet=/travel/2004/10/16/ixtrvhome.html   (464 words)

What is Netalive.org? (Netalive.org) It is as far from the crowds as it states and the people who open their minds here are great too. Far from the maddening crowds, a place to kick back and lead an intelligent discussion in peace. RSS 0.91 Newsfeed of new topics is available, updated once every hour. www.netalive.org /bestof?page=112&show=good   (556 words)

National Research Priorities-Andrew Glenn So far, for us as an institution, we believe that this has been a successful approach to beginning to focus some areas of research and for us to become a significant player. I would suggest in some of those areas we now have a base that we can use to become a significant international player in some of those areas, and to use the same approach to be driving new areas. Secondly, there must be a limited number of themes, and I think we should be aiming to cross the boundaries of the disciplines if we are truly going to get the answers to the great questions that we are going to pose. www.science.org.au /events/priorities/glenn.htm   (1852 words)

Darjeeling the Queen Of Hills has much to offer, besides the tea It is far from the maddening crowds of the metros. There is nowhere quite a place like Darjeeling "Queen of hills" which nature has chosen with care and blessed it with beauty and lush greenery of the tea garden. There is no finer place than Darjeeling to steep yourself in the grandeur and beauty of the towering snow-capped mountains. www.indiatour.com /darjeeling.htm   (329 words)

Review Article by Walid Saleh In so far as this material has to come from somewhere, it is obviously based, in one way or another, upon traditions that grew out of the Hebrew Bible. The fact that he deems it appropriate to draw broad conclusions from the presumed absence of an Arabic plural is another indication that his method of studying scripture lacks theoretical reflection. Muhammad is asking his supporters to follow his lead even if his demand is as unfathomable and as maddening as being asked to avoid drinking water before a battle. www.riifs.org /review_articles/review_v5no2_walidsaleh.htm   (8252 words)

Chicane As moody and instrumental as Robert Miles's big Europop hit "Children," Chicane's Far from the Maddening Crowds features coolly delicate orchestral pop arrangements, acoustic-guitar interludes, the sounds of waves mussing a beach, and -- always -- the throbby, four-to-the-floor pump beat that drives dreamy Eurodisco. No, just savor the ease with which he recycles the always lighthearted, soft-melodic elements of his lush dance music, 72 minutes of sonic idealism in which quiet and softness are the theme as well as the form. Chicane varies his sonic components hardly at all, so there's no point trying to distinguish one mix of "Offshore" and "Sunstroke" from another (the CD includes two of each), or figuring out where "Early" and "Already There" stop and "From Blue to Green," "Leaving Town," and "The Drive Home" begin. www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/98/04/02/OTR/CHICANE.html   (132 words)

Lake Rotoroa Lodge - The Best of New Zealand Fly Fishing Far from the maddening crowds, the Lodge is nestled in the beech forest fairyland of the Nelson Lakes National Park overlooking the glacial formed Lake Rotoroa and Gowon river. Lake Rotoroa Lodge is a prestigious fishing lodge built in the 1920’s incorporating the style of the Victorian era. The Lodge provides luxurious facilities coupled with old world charm and relaxed, personal attention to all guest requirements. www.bestofnzflyfishing.com /rotoroa.htm   (397 words)

About Music Hall Thus, by drawing vast crowds of the general public, they add substantially to the funds of their excellent charities. It held that, as far as the entertainment went, according to the evidence tendered, it was not a ballet representing any distinct story or coherent action, but it might have been a “divertissement “—a term suggested in the course of the trial. Theresa, the diva of the Alcazar, in Paris, and, so far as regards pointlessness and stupidity, we are bound in truth to say that our remarks have no reference to her; she possesses that which, in a different walk of life, might have enabled her to obtain a high position as an artist. www.arthurlloyd.co.uk /AboutMusicHall.htm   (7897 words)

Library Stuff Surowiecki wrote about that concept in Wisdom of Crowds. "To James Surowiecki, the author of "The Wisdom of Crowds," the emergence of online squads of opposition researchers is mostly a plus. Visitors can create their own entries or change existing ones, contributing their bookish wisdom and, yes, sometimes mistakes or outright misinformation as well." www.librarystuff.net /archives/2004_10_01_index.html   (7724 words)

G8 SUMMIT: Far From Those Maddening Crowds But the government could hardly have been unmindful of the inaccessibility of Gleneagles to large and angry crowds. British officials insist that Gleneagles in the Scottish county Perthshire was not picked because of its remoteness, even though no place is ultimately remote in a small island country. www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=28433   (979 words)

Melbourne Beach vacation rentals Florida Villa This area of Melbourne Beach is far from the maddening crowds, the perfect place to come to relax and unwind. Escape the crowds and come relax on beautiful Melbourne Beach. Each furnished villa is equipped with refrigerators, microwaves, stoves, coffee makers, toasters, blenders, cable tv, irons, towels and sheets, central heat/AC, patio furniture, beach chairs and umbrellas, barbeques, beach toys for kids, outdoor shower and fish cleaning area. www.greatrentals.com /FL/15658.html   (371 words)

Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Books Slate is running a fascinating dialogue between Malcolm Gladwell of Blink and Jim Surowiecki of The Wisdom of Crowds which weaves together the concepts of rapid cognition gut-based decision making with deliberate decision making as well as the value of one expert's decision versus a group of average people's decisions. Because of this, it would be against the spirit of his work to quickly characterize his book as the standard neoconservative take on the culture and politics of race and, in the name of convenience, juxtapose him with a more left-wing pundit so as to reduce the argument to a simple choice. At times it got a little too touchy-feely for me (and she went on far too long bitching about George Bush - give me a break) but on the whole this is Lamott at her best. bigben.blogs.com /first/books/index.html   (13743 words)

Chicane - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links The first Chicane album, Far From the Maddening Crowds, was released in 1997. Employing Adams as an uncredited vocalist, he then topped the British charts with "Don't Give Up." It was featured on the second Chicane album, Behind the Sun, released in Europe in the spring of 2000. Changing to Chicane, he reached the British Top 20 in late 1996 with "Offshore." He then enlisted Clannad's Maire Brennan for a remake of the Clannad hit "The Theme From Harry's Game" under the title "Saltwater," which reached the U.K. Top Ten and became an international hit. www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,584075,00.html?src=search&artist=Chicane   (261 words)

IOL: Finding heaven in the hills of Breedekloof One hour's drive from Cape Town, the Breedekloof is over the mountains and far away from the madding crowds. A nostalgic gallery of sepia portraits captures the life of the Simonis family in Rawsonville in the early 20th century - along with photos of horse-harvested vineyards in the great hanepoot harvest of 1908. A pocket of unspoilt countryside, the valleys of Breede River, Slanghoek, Goudini and Rawsonville have united to form the country's newest wine tourism region. www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=14&click_id=420&art_id=vn20050225120729321C127935   (1487 words)

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission - Parks - Trail Search Hikers, bikers, horse riders, cross-country skiers and canoeists can all select trails located far from the maddening crowds or in communities large and small across the state. Nebraska is now celebrated for its many recreational trails that serve modern adventurers. www.ngpc.state.ne.us /parks/guides/trails/findtrails.asp   (111 words)

Will-O-Winn Lodge Located far from the maddening crowds, Will-O-Winn Lodge on Trembleur Lake, northwest of Fort St. James, approximately 957 km (594 mi) from Vancouver is truly a fishing paradise. This is the place to catch great fish, eat great food and just sit back and relax and enjoy. Fishing like you would never believe - trophy-size rainbow trout, lake trout, Dolly Varden and kokanee. www.bcadventure.com /willowin   (483 words)

Eproperty - Real Estate in Cape Town, South Africa - Wedderwill Country Estate : The Precincts Far from the maddening crowds, you will only hear the birds sing. The homes to be built on East Ridge - will be surrounded by vineyards and enjoy spectacular views over the Helderberg and Hottentots Holland Mountains. www.wedderwill.co.za /loc_02.htm   (172 words)

vanishingson: musings eventually they will have a fluid snapshot of one's life's memories -- far more exact and accurate and continuous than natural, organic memory can retain and provide on its own. www.swcp.com /vson/musings/musings-990515.html   (608 words)

Important Considerations For Buying Rural Land Fantasies about living a peaceful, independent, existence in the country, far from the maddening crowds, can soon turn to feelings of isolation and hardship. However, it is important to realize that rural living is nothing like living in the suburbs of the city. This article provides you with basic information on important points to consider before you buy rural land, whether for a home or for a business. www.horse-previews.com /1000articles/buying_rural_land.html   (1267 words)

Ben Kepple: February 2004 Archives Were she in far different economic circumstances, we would half expect to find ourselves on some street corner giving her a buck and wishing that her life changed for the better -- that's how abnormally thin she appears. Even in the crowd scenes, perhaps the most provocative in terms of this issue, it is Caiaphas who clearly is behind things. Now, because we are having an iffy-to-decent week thus far, we decided tonight that we would cook a perfectly healthy and economical meal -- and one that superstition holds will bring us good luck. www.benkepple.com /archives/2004_02.html   (14133 words)

James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - OneLang.com At the far end of the shed near the street a speck of pink light showed in the darkness and as he walked towards it he became aware of a faint aromatic odour. All were waiting: uncle Charles, who sat far away in the shadow of the window, Dante and Mr Casey, who sat in the easy-chairs at either side of the hearth, Stephen, seated on a chair between them, his feet resting on the toasted boss. The soutane sleeve swished again as the pandybat was lifted and a loud crashing sound and a fierce maddening tingling burning pain made his hand shrink together with the palms and fingers in a livid quivering mass. books.onelang.com /A-Portrait-of-the-Artist-as-a-Young-Man   (20694 words)

CAMPUS CENTS Nestled amid the bustling city but far from the maddening crowds sits an oasis of tranquility; Austin's very own version of the wilderness, otherwise known as the Barton Creek Greenbelt. Extending 7.9 miles from Barton Springs to Zilker Park, the greenbelt officially opened in 1985. “It’s a real community of climbers here and it’s by far the cheapest thing to do on the weekend. www.utexas.edu /coc/journalism/onlinejou/archive/fall2001/stories/poe2.html   (457 words)

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