{"id":843,"date":"2006-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/10\/17\/781\/"},"modified":"2006-10-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T22:00:00","slug":"781","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/10\/17\/781\/","title":{"rendered":"Homophily in Social Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Torkington &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/homophily_in_so.html\" title=\"O'Reilly Radar &gt; Homophily in Social Software\">Homophily in Social Software<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;If you prematurely narrow in, you&#8217;ll end up only showing them stories about melting Antarctic ice shelves without connecting to the rest of environmental, travel, or scientific stories that they&#8217;re really interested in. The best way to make those connections is to mix it up.<\/p>\n<p>Doing this creates <em>serendipity<\/em>: pleasantly surprising the user. For example, don&#8217;t show just the top 10 most similar items in your recommendations list, but show the eight most similar and two from the mid-range. Or call the &#8222;less relevant but also likely to be interesting&#8220; results out like you&#8217;re advertising them: put a heading like &#8222;Take a walk on the wild side&#8220; or &#8222;Break out&#8220; on top and act like it&#8217;s a feature you&#8217;re offering, not a bug you&#8217;re fixing.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking out of the tight circle of self-similar recommendations <em>is<\/em> a feature.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Torkington &#8211; Homophily in Social Software: &#8222;If you prematurely narrow in, you&#8217;ll end up only showing them stories about melting Antarctic ice shelves without connecting to the rest of environmental, travel, or scientific stories that they&#8217;re really interested in. The best way to make those connections is to mix it up. Doing this creates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}