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Two reservations come to mind: 1. How many people would want this? It seems like the number of people who take their blogs seriously enough to be willing to p
by dfranke 20y ago
Two reservations come to mind:
1. How many people would want this? It seems like the number of people who take their blogs seriously enough to be willing to pay for this is maybe a thousand.
2. I don't see how this can scale. Unless you're thinking of AI, or some sort of peer-to-peer network, then you're selling a skilled-labor-intensive service, not a product. You might be able to form a profitable small business, but I wouldn't call it a startup.
- whacked_new 20y agoIt doesn't need to be as purpose-specific as the title suggests. Blogs are a medium of communication; there are many possible media. Consider this interaction. A: this rose is green. B: roses are not green. C: (so the rose is not green!). C: actually, it's not a rose, it's a leaf. This can occur in a blog, in a chatroom, and more importantly, it occurs in everyday life. Proofreading, fact-checking and such is a streamlined application of this self-correction process (e.g., of the ABC system above), applied to written material. While we are a far way off from AI that can do this on the fly, the processes certainly is extendible, and should be extended. It's how ideas evolve.