Dem Schockwellenreiter sei Dank. MF war einst einer meiner Säulenheiligen. Anbei ein Foucaultsche Halluzination meinerseits aus dem Jahre 1994.

Damit es nützt
»Ich versuche eher, Probleme zu formulieren, sie in einer Komplexität darzustellen, welche die Propheten und die Gesetzgeber zum Schweigen bringt, all jene, die für die anderen und vor den anderen sprechen … Die Leute sind politisch und moralisch erwachsen geworden.

Great attempt to start summarizing what was going on in the blogosphere with resepct to research questions. Liz claims that you need to be part of the culture you are researching. Which I’d like to agree since I’m a cultural historian by trade - which was an oxymoron at a certain period of time.

I think someone mentioned this method (Bayesean filtering) before. Anyway it could help with those knowledge-managment systems that are based on human filtering and sorting.

Managing content with automatic document classification

Rafael A. Calvo, Jae-Moon Lee and Xiaobo Li have written an academic paper on automatic document classification. To quote:

News articles and Web directories represent some of the most popular and commonly accessed content on the Web.

The Trotts tried hard to regain the community and their customers. If you want to talk to them, attend their @ BlogTalk 2.0 keynote about “Blogs, Bandwidth, and Banjos: Tightly Knit Bonds in Weblogging”
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