http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/17/interestingness-applied-to-blog-posts/ Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Venture Capital in New York City Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:17:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/17/interestingness-applied-to-blog-posts/#comment-15 me Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:37:53 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/17/interestingness-applied-to-blog-posts/#comment-15 Techmeme would be a great start I agree. I certainly don't think techmeme captures interestingness right now; I think they capture a combination of activity and chronological ordering, and that would be one component of interestingness. I hope interestingness is more than that, and I think it is. If Flickr's interestingness algorithm were just activity and chronological ordering, then we'd probably see more photos from the latest celebrity bash; but instead we see genuinely eye-popping, interesting photos. There's gotta be a way to translate this to blog posts when the inputs into the algorithm are the same. Techmeme would be a great start I agree. I certainly don’t think techmeme captures interestingness right now; I think they capture a combination of activity and chronological ordering, and that would be one component of interestingness. I hope interestingness is more than that, and I think it is. If Flickr’s interestingness algorithm were just activity and chronological ordering, then we’d probably see more photos from the latest celebrity bash; but instead we see genuinely eye-popping, interesting photos. There’s gotta be a way to translate this to blog posts when the inputs into the algorithm are the same.

]]> http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/17/interestingness-applied-to-blog-posts/#comment-12 Chris Barchak Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:04:49 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/17/interestingness-applied-to-blog-posts/#comment-12 Memeorandum seems to use "interestingness" to determine what they post and how they structure the posts. You could cache what Memeorandum (plus techmeme and the rest) thinks to start and search that to start? Memeorandum seems to use “interestingness” to determine what they post and how they structure the posts. You could cache what Memeorandum (plus techmeme and the rest) thinks to start and search that to start?

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