http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/02/01/editing-discussions/ Niko Nyman's blog on shifting topics. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:29:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/02/01/editing-discussions/comment-page-1/#comment-215773 What Stack Overflow did to online discussions — /personal Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:11:59 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/02/01/editing-discussions/#comment-215773 <p>[...] Overflow is a working example of how to combine the best of discussion and editing. Not exactly how I envisioned it in 2007, but nevertheless, a very well working system. This entry was posted on Tuesday, [...]</p> [...] Overflow is a working example of how to combine the best of discussion and editing. Not exactly how I envisioned it in 2007, but nevertheless, a very well working system. This entry was posted on Tuesday, [...]

]]> http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/02/01/editing-discussions/comment-page-1/#comment-19419 /personal » Blog Archive » Tagging, experts and the foolishness of crowds Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:08:55 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/02/01/editing-discussions/#comment-19419 <p>[...] The music experts at Pandora might have started with all kinds of keywords, but at the end they have restricted themselves to what they call genes. The genes are chosen to represent specific attributes of music without leaving room for the curly hair of the singer, the bands chart success, the personal tastes of the expert, well accepted genre boundaries, or other non-auditory things to affect the assignment of keywords or tags that Pandora will rely on when finding new music for its users. It’s the power of professional editing applied to tags. [...]</p> [...] The music experts at Pandora might have started with all kinds of keywords, but at the end they have restricted themselves to what they call genes. The genes are chosen to represent specific attributes of music without leaving room for the curly hair of the singer, the bands chart success, the personal tastes of the expert, well accepted genre boundaries, or other non-auditory things to affect the assignment of keywords or tags that Pandora will rely on when finding new music for its users. It’s the power of professional editing applied to tags. [...]

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