http://john.mignault.net/blog/2007/11/26/social-metadata/ Cartoon-drawing diabetic comics-reading pen-fetishizing cycling leftist geek librarian. God, how bourgeois. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:06:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://john.mignault.net/blog/2007/11/26/social-metadata/comment-page-1/#comment-3389 jbm Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:39:37 +0000 http://john.mignault.net/blog/2007/11/26/social-metadata/#comment-3389 I think you put a good more deal of faith in recommendation engines - which is I how I read "others like me," or more accurately, "people that bought the same things I did" - than I do. I'm not entirely certain that I'm about to let that sort of data start having much of an influence on what I read. Then again, I'm also not sure how interested I am in a culture that seems determined to abolish serendipity, in the name of not "wasting time." "People like me" should be based on more than raw consumerism. If all more interactive e-books do to further reading as an activity is make it easier for Amazon to narrow its niches to needles ("hey! here's what other people who bought Croatian sci-fi last year also bought - would you like to buy the three sentences they chuckled over in the bathroom?"), then it will have not done very much at all. I think you put a good more deal of faith in recommendation engines – which is I how I read “others like me,” or more accurately, “people that bought the same things I did” – than I do. I’m not entirely certain that I’m about to let that sort of data start having much of an influence on what I read. Then again, I’m also not sure how interested I am in a culture that seems determined to abolish serendipity, in the name of not “wasting time.” “People like me” should be based on more than raw consumerism. If all more interactive e-books do to further reading as an activity is make it easier for Amazon to narrow its niches to needles (“hey! here’s what other people who bought Croatian sci-fi last year also bought – would you like to buy the three sentences they chuckled over in the bathroom?”), then it will have not done very much at all.

]]> http://john.mignault.net/blog/2007/11/26/social-metadata/comment-page-1/#comment-3387 Nicole Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:09:02 +0000 http://john.mignault.net/blog/2007/11/26/social-metadata/#comment-3387 Weinberger does of course mention that this would be with the permission of the reader - but I am no marketer and I get excited about people being able to combine information from several sources and provide better services to me. I don't care who knows what I'm reading - while I understand the potential concerns of others - I think it's cool that I could avoid wasting time on a book that others like me have only made it half way through. Weinberger does of course mention that this would be with the permission of the reader – but I am no marketer and I get excited about people being able to combine information from several sources and provide better services to me. I don’t care who knows what I’m reading – while I understand the potential concerns of others – I think it’s cool that I could avoid wasting time on a book that others like me have only made it half way through.

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