> -roulette. Burn the matchmaking algorithms... Heh. True. -- The road less traveled was foraging. Prior to relevant search and recommenders, information sc

> -roulette. Burn the matchmaking algorithms... Heh. True. -- The road less traveled was foraging. Prior to relevant search and recommenders, information science people (eg librarians) facilitated user directed discovery. Instead, most effort has been put preventing user agency. We know what you want. We'll tell you. Leave the details to us; no need to worry yourself about our algorithms. IMHO, web directories (eg curlie, neé DMOZ) are maybe the closest digital analog of foraging. goodreads.com was pretty good. I'm struggling to think of other examples. Maybe BBSs like craigslist and metafilter.