{"id":633,"date":"2006-03-10T09:22:31","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T13:22:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-22T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T15:02:19","slug":"is_there_place_for_a_meta_memtracker_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/03\/10\/is_there_place_for_a_meta_memtracker_and\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there place for a Meta-Memetracker and what would be its utility?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across a seed idea spread on the FeedBlog, wrote Kevin Burton<\/a>, yesterday (using Talk Digger<\/a> of course, you see the link to it in the blog post? It is the reason why linking is so important<\/a> ). He pointed out an idea that Dave Winer gave for free<\/a> 3 days ago on his blog.<\/p>\n

The idea? <\/p>\n

“Implement a search engine that accumulates all the stories pointed to by the top meme-engines over time. That way if I think of something I saw on Tailrank or Memeorandum a year ago, I just go to the universal meme search engine, type in the phrase, and get back the hits.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kevin was thinking about something a little bit different: a meta-memetracker that would look like Talk Digger.<\/p>\n

I think that there is a place (at least emerging) for such a service considering the growing number of memetracker out there (TailRank<\/a>, Memeorandum<\/a>, Findatory<\/a>, Megite<\/a>, and probably others that I do not know of (I found yesterday a sort of memetracker on Rojo’s main page<\/a> that is really cool)).<\/p>\n

What would be the added value to users? The first thing is that you would have only one place to visit to get the top stories (obvious behavior for a meta-memetracker, no?).<\/p>\n

However, I think that a more interesting phenomenon would happen too. The thing is that none of these memetrackers use the same methods\/algorithms to find out what is a good story. Some seems to works with links and predefined list of good information sources selected by humans, other probably user some sort of advanced natural language processing algorithms, other a mix of these two methods and other probably use methods that I can’t think of.<\/p>\n

All the memetrackers have one thing in common: they aggregate stories they think that are good (are they performing users profiling? It could be one next step to increase the effectiveness of these services Dave<\/a>).<\/p>\n

This said, some stories appear on all memetracker and other only on one of them. So, if one algorithm doesn’t score well for a specific story, it is not really a problem because the strength of the meta-memetracker is that it would prioritize the set of results composed by the intersections of the sets of results returned by each memetracker. That said, the meta-memetracker would return the bests of the bests stories because the error rate would be blended by the intersection of results’ sets.<\/p>\n

It was my two pennies<\/p>\n

(if you would like to read more about the socio-philosophical background of popularity, read that blog post wrote by Joshua Porter a couple of days ago<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Technorati: memetracker<\/a> | davewiner<\/a> | tailrank<\/a> | memeorandum<\/a> | findatory<\/a> | megite<\/a> | metamemetracker<\/a> | popularity<\/a> | <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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