Michael Fioritto: WebLogsWebLogs - news and information about the WebLogging community(Untitled)- November 21, 2003 Working with Bayesian categorizers. There's been some discussion in the blog world about using a Bayesian categorizer to enable a person to discriminate along various interestnon-interest axes. I took a run at this recently and, although my experiments haven't been wildly successful, I want to report them because I think the idea may have merit. Full story: O'Reilly Network: Working with Bayesian Categorizers This month's O'Reilly Network column was a struggle because categorization itself is..http://radio.weblogs.com/0101433/categories/weblogs/2003/11/21.html#a851 (Untitled)- November 12, 2003 Winer prunes blog and plants a tree. Dave Winer's transformation of Scripting News from a weblog to a directory makes more sense if you look at his categories page and an example category such as the one devoted to Howard Dean. Apparently, the new slogan of Scripting News is "plant a tree." I don't know if I like the idea yet, but I'm glad he's trying to jump outside the form we've all come to expect from weblogs and see what he discovers on a new frontier. As I learn more about Winer's...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101433/categories/weblogs/2003/11/12.html#a843 (Untitled)- November 12, 2003 Paid Subscription Blogging, Part 2. The second part of our article examining the feasibility of paid subscription blogging was published today by JupiterMedia's ClickZ.com. It also features the opinions of Hylton Jolliffe of Corante, Steve Outing of the Poynter Institute's E-Media Tidbits, Henry Copeland of Pressflex and BlogAds, and Nick Denton of Gawker, Gizmodo, and the recently launched Fleshbot. The article elicited this response from one reader: Hello I love your piece - but what exactly..http://radio.weblogs.com/0101433/categories/weblogs/2003/11/12.html#a842 |