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> The sheet of paper led to the creation of I’ve Got a Fang, a crowd-sourced site where people could contribute authoritative URLs on particular subjects. Weinb
by memexy 6y ago
> The sheet of paper led to the creation of I’ve Got a Fang, a crowd-sourced site where people could contribute authoritative URLs on particular subjects. Weinberg, who lives in Philadelphia, believed the knowledge from people’s heads could be better than Google’s algorithms.
Google initially was bootstrapped by crawling such curated lists. Now that people are relying on search instead of curating their own lists search quality is starting to decline. So I'm going to make a prediction. Federated knowledge bases with curated links are going to make a comeback because only humans can create semantically meaningful content for other humans.
- slim 6y agoI think it's already solved by social networks. You could consider twitter for example a curated list.
- memexy 6y agoSocial networks only allow very constrained forms of knowledge engineering. When I mentioned knowledge bases with links I meant in the sense of a programmable memex where the documents can be connected, annotated, and presented in arbitrary ways.