Is the wisdom of crowds coming to an end?  A recent article in Newsweek is indicating that the pull of the wisdom of crowds movement is waining.  It says, “In more recent years the ideal of the noble amateur has been bent to include a general disdain for the professional writer, editor or journalist. But while the tide of investment seems to be shifting somewhat, the nature of the Internet suggests that Web 2.0 populism will never be thrown out entirely. “There’s always a Big New Thing, but the old Big New Thing doesn’t really go away,” says Reynolds. “It becomes just another layer—like we’re building an onion from the inside out.” “

Only time will tell.  Maybe people are realizing that the democratization is really an affront for pure business.  Somebody is making money for all their hard work, it just isn’t them.