Comments on: Muxtape as a model for an anti-recommendation engine http://ryansholin.com/2008/07/02/muxtape-as-a-model-for-an-anti-recommendation-engine/ The future of news. And more. No funny stuff. Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:22:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ryan http://ryansholin.com/2008/07/02/muxtape-as-a-model-for-an-anti-recommendation-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-11047 Ryan Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:18:56 +0000 http://ryansholin.com/?p=866#comment-11047 @Suzanne - I like StumbleUpon, but I like the idea of a mixtape of news - 10 links I like, today, or this week, or this month. As I move between Delicious and Google Reader, FriendFeed and Twitter, I find there are certain things that get lost in the flow of the river of news that I'd like to save for just a minute. Yesterday, it might have been a mix of stories that explain waterboarding. Delicious saves them permanently with a tag for me, but what if I don't need these permanently, but I just want to put up my little mix until I get inspired to make the next one? It's definitely for news junkies. The same way that muxtape is for musix junkies, I expect. Anyway, it's a fun thing to imagine playing with. @Suzanne – I like StumbleUpon, but I like the idea of a mixtape of news – 10 links I like, today, or this week, or this month.

As I move between Delicious and Google Reader, FriendFeed and Twitter, I find there are certain things that get lost in the flow of the river of news that I’d like to save for just a minute.

Yesterday, it might have been a mix of stories that explain waterboarding. Delicious saves them permanently with a tag for me, but what if I don’t need these permanently, but I just want to put up my little mix until I get inspired to make the next one?

It’s definitely for news junkies. The same way that muxtape is for musix junkies, I expect.

Anyway, it’s a fun thing to imagine playing with.

]]> By: Suzanne http://ryansholin.com/2008/07/02/muxtape-as-a-model-for-an-anti-recommendation-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-11046 Suzanne Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:52:14 +0000 http://ryansholin.com/?p=866#comment-11046 Is StumbleUpon not serendipitous enough? I click a "Stumble!" button and a page comes to me at random. I make it stumble just the news category and bam -- a random story. It's very hard to picture what your idea is here as it relates to news. So let me try and replicate your vision: A website that features a random list of user names will link to their top 10 favorite news articles of the day, for example. Would this be average readers or would this cater to news junkies? Help explain a little further. Is StumbleUpon not serendipitous enough? I click a “Stumble!” button and a page comes to me at random. I make it stumble just the news category and bam — a random story.

It’s very hard to picture what your idea is here as it relates to news. So let me try and replicate your vision: A website that features a random list of user names will link to their top 10 favorite news articles of the day, for example. Would this be average readers or would this cater to news junkies? Help explain a little further.

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