Collective intelligence: "is a form of intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals". According to this definition, intelligence is not a product such as information or knowledge, but rather a capacity to come function together to achieve a particular task or intention.
I don't have concerns with the process of collective intelligence as presented here, but I am concerned with the identity-less product which is the consummation of individual work and what is often presented as the work of the collective.
Connective intelligence: individual creation of information, ideas, and concepts which are then shared with others, connected, and re-created and extended based on the interaction.
Simply, collective means blending together. Connective means connecting while retaining the original (though others may build on it in their own spaces).
Si lo entiendo bien, estos dos conceptos distinguen entre la disponibilidad/capacidad de obtener información y conocimiento de nuestra interacción en redes anónimas (en el sentido de que confiamos en una tendencia del conjunto del usuario, no en personas concretas a quién reconocemos su criterio) y nuestras redes más personales. En estas redes cercanas, nuestra identidad no se difumina; en la nube de tags de del.icio.us sí
