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LazyWeb: fight laziness! Automate categorization of blog stuff!

Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 2:39 am on 4/25/2003

Hey, LazyWeb! There’s a lot of good ideas in here. If bloggers won’t categorize their posts, or otherwise add metadata aggressively enough, let’s make software that does it for them! This guy says the kind of Bayesian math that works so well on spam won’t work very well for this… but even a 70% success rate would help. Given the limited usefulness of sorting all the different stuff we put in our blogs by time only, we need more – but rich connections between concepts are not the kind of thing that a computer can generate for you. It doesn’t happen enough because it’s time-consuming, human work. Maybe this will take some combination of Bayesian wackiness and peer-to-peer wackiness (that link’s hella wacky but seems promising).

I apologize for the lower-than-usual coherency of this post, especially for my less technical readers. But then, maybe this isn’t less coherent than usual. Oy.

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