Show Notes

• Tracking facades is a lot of work
• No solution to being able to balance good content targeted for search engines and humans
• Yahoo! used to do this - supposedly linked the best quality content just by humans
• Is it time to throw out algorithmically generated curation? There is no way to have that level of quality control. Its the difference between Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Brittanica
• GOPHER, ARCHIE, JUGHEAD, and VERONICA?
• There is no way to go back to the Yahoo! of old? Is there a business model in users paying a monthly fee for access to a human-curated directory. A Yahoo-Pedia for the 21st century?
• What is quality? Quality is in the eye-of-the-beholder.
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Inside - and curated newsletters are going pay and private - better content and curation by going pay. Is human curation the thing we pay for since algorithmic creation is failing us so badly?
• Would you pay for someone to search through the crap? Just get a better thesaurus
• There is no absolute truth - but is their value in getting the best content
• Its a continuum between beauty and non-beauty - even if you don't get exactly what you need, it might be enough to take in the right direction.
• Build it better, but not perfect. There is a limit to what we can do - we will always be standing on the shoulders of giants.