Searching the Syndisphere
Syndicate
Begins: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 at 12:45 PM
Ends: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 at 1:45 PM
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Moderated by Jerry Michalski, CEO, Sociate
Panelists:
Chris Redlitz, Feedster
Debby Richman, Looksmart
Liz Lawley, Microsoft Research
Naill Kennedy, Technorati
Liz: It’s very hard to track the entire conversation.
Naill: Technorati tries to do this with Furl and Flickr tags.
Chris: Feedster also overlays the content.
+ The voice of the people are serving up credible resources as well.
Liz: The services don’t speak to the general user. Librarians are keen on the information needs of users. Tagging is not a natural behavior.
Naill: Technorati just introduced a topic-type generator
Chris: It depends on the user. For some users, (ie those interested in news, timeliness is most important.
Liz: It’s very hard to do archical type searching, how to find stuff that she has already seen. She wants to search what she has seen in the past and uses a desktop aggregator to archive what she’s seen and read.
Talking about categorizing blogs, the vast majority of blogs are not categorizable.