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Not that I don't think the technology behind this is both awesome and completely applicable -- because it is, and it is -- but I hope Medium doesn't take this a
by jmduke 13y ago
Not that I don't think the technology behind this is both awesome and completely applicable -- because it is, and it is -- but I hope Medium doesn't take this approach.
The biggest part of Medium's value proposition, to me, is manual curation. While the included summarizations are technically accurate, they're stilted, like they're being spat out from an algorithm (because they are!): the exact opposite feeling that you want when you're being gently told from a site that they're editing and proofing and including all of these human flourishes.
- MojoJolo 13y agoI like your comment. Even though you mention that it should not be used in Medium, you still praise the technology. :) Thanks!
- ozziegooen 13y agoThose summaries were quite fantastic. I agree that perhaps it is unnecessary to use them for the selected entries, but feel like they must be useful somewhere else. Perhaps it would make the most sense to have an rss reader or similar with the summarizer built-in. Or a page with links to medium articles (plus others) with summaries.
- MojoJolo 13y agoHi, I built Readborg (http://readborg.com/ http://readborg.com/) to showcase what the algorithm (TextTeaser) can do. It is a news reader for Philippine news.
- ics 13y agoI searched for TextTeaser and only found a boilerplate login site and some unrelated results. Have you or do you plan on posting the code anywhere? The results look very good, and though I'm sure you can think of some great uses for it (incl. ways to monetize it) it would be fantastic to have a good summarizer for personal notes and the like. I suppose if Readborg was a full-blown RSS reader (it doesn't appear to be) you could pump all your writing through an RSS feed but that's a sticky way of doing things. Edit: Saw the comment below asking if we could see your thesis, which I would be very interested in especially if you don't plan on sharing all of your code.
- cwilson 13y agoA practical use might be a behind the scenes installation of this technology, so that the curators can more quickly create their own summaries of articles for Medium? Basically, tools to help the Medium staff scale the white glove nature of the site.