Making It Easier To Find Stuff You Like

yup, great ideas

At 06:12 PM 1/14/2003 -0500, Daniel Young wrote:
>I like Dyske's 2 cents,i.e.,"bookmarking" (which I take to be a sort of
>voting) and "volunteer curators." I guess the former would be like the
>buyer rating/opinions you can get on some commercial sites. As for the
>latter, if somebody whose judgment I came to respect had the time and
>energy to make recommendations I would be grateful.
>
>For a bookmarking or voting system I would require voters to identify
>themselves and give some reason or reasons. That would have the multiple
>benefits of preventing artificial inflation of the vote and also give
>people some idea of what standards of judgment are being used in the
>recommendation.
>
>Needless to say, curators would be required to give some rationale for
>their preferences. And that too might contribute to the development of
>genuine critical discourse in this area.
>
>In all these methods, I would give the artist the right of reply (with
>some reasonable word limitation).
>
>Daniel Young
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