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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Connected Data - Latest Comments in People are better than computers. Automated news doesn&amp;#8217;t quite work.</title><link>http://connecteddata.disqus.com/</link><description></description><atom:link href="http://connecteddata.disqus.com/people_are_better_than_computers_automated_news_doesn8217t_quite_work/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:23:06 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: People are better than computers. Automated news doesn&amp;#8217;t quite work.</title><link>http://blog.cosential.com/?p=179#comment-4156832</link><description>The site NewsTrust draws on a Slashdot-like (or Digg-like) model of mass-moderation to filter and promote news stories from mainstream outlets and blogs. But every week they propose a focus topic to their usership, which creates a secondary information quality to "newsworthy" or "trusted".
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&lt;br&gt;the human editorship proposes a focus topic - the algorithm handles mass-proposal and voting - the usership selects and moderates
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&lt;br&gt;I, for one, welcome the rise of our algorithmically moderated mass overlords!</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Ouroboros</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:23:06 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
