We’ve talked about trust and filters a bit in recent days and the slides, even in the absence of context of the entire talk, suggest some ideas about how we can try and find trusted sources of information. I will include the slide that makes the most sense to me
As I have said before, the challenge comes when we go beyond the first layer of connections that we have and traverse the graph of connections. I almost feel like we need an agent in the middle, continuously getting feedback and analyzing signals being sent from various nodes of an ever expanding graph, making the “keep this” or “discard this” decision.
So how can we leverage this for publications, references, and other forms of scientific information. Who is going to deploy these agents? Would love to know if anyone is thinking along those lines. Any librarians? In a way, the ability of applying filters comes in two flavors, from an individual-centric frame of reference, and from a query-centric frame of reference, and the latter is definitely something librarians can be involved with, especially given some of the platforms available today.
In signals we trust
Bret Taylor has posted some graphics that he presented at the Future of Web Apps conference. The slides seem to explore the concept of signals in a virtual river of information, i.e. Friendfeed.
We’ve talked about trust and filters a bit in recent days and the slides, even in the absence of context of the entire talk, suggest some ideas about how we can try and find trusted sources of information. I will include the slide that makes the most sense to me
As I have said before, the challenge comes when we go beyond the first layer of connections that we have and traverse the graph of connections. I almost feel like we need an agent in the middle, continuously getting feedback and analyzing signals being sent from various nodes of an ever expanding graph, making the “keep this” or “discard this” decision.
So how can we leverage this for publications, references, and other forms of scientific information. Who is going to deploy these agents? Would love to know if anyone is thinking along those lines. Any librarians? In a way, the ability of applying filters comes in two flavors, from an individual-centric frame of reference, and from a query-centric frame of reference, and the latter is definitely something librarians can be involved with, especially given some of the platforms available today.