Don\u2019t know about you, but my ability to find interesting and relevant information is rapidly diminishing. It\u2019s not because there are \u201c500 channel and nothing on\u201d\u2026rather, it\u2019s because there billions of channels and way too many of them are interesting. We now need agregators of agregators to find stuff that is a) relevant, b)interesting, c) factual (when needed) and d) moderately well written\/packaged\/presented.\u00a0 The chaotic anybody-can-put-stuff-on-the-net model is wonderfully populistic and feel-goodish, but for those of use yearning for content on-demand, it\u2019s difficult to find that proverbial needle in the internet information haystack.<\/p>\n
A few internet centuries ago, I worked on a project to embed metadata on live television broadcast streams. The dream was to capture content, create arbitrary units of video information and stick those units in a database, cross-referenced with keywords, timecodes, temporal data, geocoding \u2014 enough data that you could, if it had ever evolved that far, simply enter topics that interest you and it could spit out anything related and, depending on the context,\u00a0 geographically pertinent. Obviously, construction on major highway in Chicago has no relevance to you unless you live in Chicago, plan on driving to\/through Chicago or have a brother-in-law in Chicago that you want to raz.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the problem with search engines today. They are based on keywords and some very rudimentary engines that try to glean context. But context is a very personal thing\u2026geography, for example, is a very important component of information about roadwork. Not so much for information or news about federal healthcare strategies. Until information engines can know more (and make use of) information about who is searching, why they\u2019re searching, where they live and what they\u2019re personal preferences\/idiosyncracies are, they\u2019re doomed to produce greather than 1 millions hits for the most simple of queries.<\/p>\n
It is possible to make order out of chaos\u2026after all, even chaos is capable of being organized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Don\u2019t know about you, but my ability to find interesting and relevant information is rapidly diminishing. It\u2019s not because there<\/p>\n