Techmeme, der bekannte Memetracker von US-Technews, der bekanntermassen Vorbild für Rivva war, wird künftig neben den Algorithmen, die die Links analysieren und zu Themen clustern, einen menschlichen Editor haben, der der Site beim Themenfinden und -clustering unter die Arme Algorithmen greift.
Techmeme-Macher Gabe Riviera über die Änderungen:
In 2005 it was clear to me that an ideal news aggregation site would need to combine automation with direct, hands on editing.
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… WeiterlesenHumans have always edited Techmeme of course, just implicitly. For instance, when a blogger links to a story, the headline might move higher on Techmeme. What’s different now is that an additional human editor will carry out changes explicitly to directly improve the mix of headlines on Techmeme. Though the implicit edits conveyed via algorithm outnumber the explicit edits perhaps by 1000 to 1 or more, the impact of the human editor is nonetheless pronounced.