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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.
April 26th, 2003 at 12:35 pm
I dunno what you’re talking about, but if you say it’s hella wacky, I’ll believe you.
May 1st, 2003 at 11:11 am
Have a look at http://blogs.atlassian.com/rebelutionary/archives/000030.html
and http://www.nicklothian.com/blog/2003/04/29#1sttest
May 2nd, 2003 at 9:30 am
I was just blogging about this yesterday… I came up with the rudiments for what I think would be a natural keyword-discovery mechanism, but I don’t have the technical chops to execute it.