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nuanced position, but takes us away from the more problematic use of the word ‘intel-
ligence’. Gruber (2008) takes the view that it is perfectly acceptable to refer to the idea
of collective intelligence, but that, in so doing, one needs to accept that at present Web
2.0 does not exhibit something that might deserve that label. He prefers the term col-
lected intelligence, indicating that what we mainly have to date is vast collections of user-
generated content that exhibits certain properties but which, rstly, does not conform to
the criteria set by Surowiecki and, secondly, has yet ...