I ended up with an excellent recommendation for a Chinese restaurant in Milwaukee, by reading past the lame Milwaukee Journal survey article to the comments. O

I ended up with an excellent recommendation for a Chinese restaurant in Milwaukee, by reading past the lame Milwaukee Journal survey article to the comments. One commenter provided enough context, detail, and personal investment -- in the topic, but not the restaurant -- that I felt confident taking the recommendation. And he was right. This still seems to be the only way to get a good recommendation out of the web. It puts us in touch, but we still have to pay attention and filter and aggregate manually.