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10 Apr 08

Filtering Internet Content - MIT Tech Review: Blogs: TR Editors' blog

Clay Shirky was right when he emphasized "filtering" in that WorldChanging interview. But as Kristina Grifantini, the MIT Tech Review blogger, puts it, is "hand-holding" during search really the way to go? (I think NOT.)

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  • Mark Moran, the CEO of Dulcinea Media of New York, presented a Web search engine the company launched last year. The engine's findings are based on editorially reviewed content and links. Taglined "the Librarian of the Internet," findingDulcinea.com is a good idea in theory. According to Moran, users are inundated with information and often don't get what they're really looking for. "Internet search engines are powered by math-based algorithms--ones that lack the judgment and adaptability of the human mind," he says.
  • While this hand-holding portal to the Internet might be appealing to people like my mom, who doesn't have an e-mail account and just recently learned to Google, the site still has gaps in many subject topics. That's not surprising--how can a group of 30 people write guides and find good links to every single subject?

Study finds gap between editors and readers in ground rules for online conversations - MIT TechReview

Fascinating study regarding the discrepancies between what MSM professionals believe and what its reading public believes. The latter think that anonymous comments are ok; that journalists/ authors participating in online conversations with readers is ok; and that expressions of personal views by journalists are ok. The 'professionals' believe the exact opposite. Hmmm.

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  • Newspaper readers agree with editors on the basics of what makes good
    journalism, but they are more apt to want looser rules for online
    conversations, a new study on news credibility has found.
  • Online Journalism Credibility Study released Tuesday
    by the Associated Press Managing Editors group and the Donald W. Reynolds
    Journalism Institute at the University
    of Missouri
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