Comments on: DLD08: My Guardian column http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/01/28/dld08-my-guardian-column/ by Jeff Jarvis Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:40:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ian Harford http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/01/28/dld08-my-guardian-column/#comment-369414 Ian Harford Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:36:33 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/01/28/dld08-my-guardian-column/#comment-369414 I read your comments on Mahalo and the suggestion by Jason Calacanis that in the future the 'fat tail' of search only will be handled by humans; and that the 'long tail' will be served automatically (by Google). I was interested in the related issue of user generated content (UGC) last year at the ALT Conference in Nottingham, where Peter Norvig, Google's Director of Research was a keynote speaker. At the end of his talk I asked him if he thought UGC could help to refine Google's search algorithms; and got a very full reply, which suggested to me that Google was far from rejecting the notion of human intervention in its evolving search technology. The transcript of what he said is worth reading and can be found in my blog posting (9 Sept) at http://tinyurl.com/2lhdy5 I read your comments on Mahalo and the suggestion by Jason Calacanis that in the future the ‘fat tail’ of search only will be handled by humans; and that the ‘long tail’ will be served automatically (by Google). I was interested in the related issue of user generated content (UGC) last year at the ALT Conference in Nottingham, where Peter Norvig, Google’s Director of Research was a keynote speaker.

At the end of his talk I asked him if he thought UGC could help to refine Google’s search algorithms; and got a very full reply, which suggested to me that Google was far from rejecting the notion of human intervention in its evolving search technology. The transcript of what he said is worth reading and can be found in my blog posting (9 Sept) at http://tinyurl.com/2lhdy5

]]> By: Matt http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/01/28/dld08-my-guardian-column/#comment-367799 Matt Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:19:39 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/01/28/dld08-my-guardian-column/#comment-367799 Interesting. Blogs are not only a forum for media and PRs to be social. For instance they are also a vehicle for direct action. Most recently Guido Fawkes - www.order-order.com, has claimed his first scalp of a British member of government by releasing details on Peter Hain's illegal political funding! He also beat Sky News (Fox) to the punch on releasing details of his resignation too. See - http://www.montagecomms.com/blogger/kevin_coughlan/blog.html for further information. Matt Interesting.

Blogs are not only a forum for media and PRs to be social. For instance they are also a vehicle for direct action. Most recently Guido Fawkes - http://www.order-order.com, has claimed his first scalp of a British member of government by releasing details on Peter Hain’s illegal political funding! He also beat Sky News (Fox) to the punch on releasing details of his resignation too.

See - http://www.montagecomms.com/blogger/kevin_coughlan/blog.html for further information.

Matt

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