2011-12-20

Permanent link Taxonomies don’t matter anymore

Stijn Debrouwere – Taxonomies don’t matter anymore:

“Automated recommendation engines are mainly useful as cute but non-essential pageview drivers and if your journalists are too lazy to add links.

[…] We don't come to topic pages for automatically aggregated sort-of-relevant content with no editorial guidance as to what's important and what's not. Sometimes, you just have to do things by hand, in prose.

[…] There is really no way to sidestep curation unless we don't care that we're annoying our users.

[…] Stepping away from mediocrity, for me, means putting power back in the hands of the newsroom. To make that happen, I'll be building prosthetics, not machines.”

Filed under: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:26:35 +0100
2011-12-05

Permanent link Tools vs insight

Seth Godin – Tools vs insight:

“Knowing about a tool is one thing. Having the guts to use it in a way that brings art to the world is another. Perhaps we need to spend less time learning new tools and more time using them.”

Filed under: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:45:18 +0100