August 20, 2003

filtering

yes, yes, yes. all summer i have said 'filtering is crucial. once you enable the world to create content, how do users find it? what does this do to the shared experience? it decentralizes art as we know it.'

all fine and good i suppose.
but it seems microsoft has been eavesdropping. and they have begun filtering and massaging their newgroup data.
linky

it is cool. except, like most of the work we do, it scares me as well.

Posted by tripp at August 20, 2003 01:18 PM



Comments

microsoft must be stopped. this is pretty egregious, esp. in light of the (8/24/03) /. article on the skewed msn search engine. wait until ms buys cisco, cisco will make smart wires that disallow msn users from accessing any content ms doesn't want us to see.

Posted by: will at August 24, 2003 10:01 PM

Tripp, you should really post http://aura.research.microsoft.com/aura/AuraPortal/Default.aspx on the main imblog page. . .I don't think people are going to read that far down in the article. I think it is time for me to go live in a cave somewhere.

Posted by: bolas at August 25, 2003 07:33 PM