I’m listening to the fascinating Christopher Lydon interview of Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati. Sifry defends editors, or says the discussion/debate about editors (as witnessed — and read by both Lydon and Sifry — by Jeff Jarvis) really obsures the point: saving time. Editors save time, and the collaborative filtering does, too. Sifry says that Technorati shows the real promise of collaborative filtering.
Other notes:
- Sifry calls blogging “an incredible lesson in civics for a new generation” — he’s emphasizing the ‘markets are conversations’ theme.
- RSS… he doesn’t care about the format wars, just that there ARE formats
- metadata is “tactical” — Google starts with one piece (the link)… now add when and just those two pieces of metadata create an explosion of applications
- “The one thing that this economy revolves around, this web economy, is an economy of attention. The one thing we don’t have enough of is time.”
- “Votes of attention” is a repeated phrase.
- Go to Sifry’s Alerts and look at my blogroll.
Near the end of the interview, Lydon notes that he is trying to create a “voice-driven analog to this whole blogsphere” in his blog. [Interview is in MP3 format; 30+ minutes long.]
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1 clock — watching time, the only true currency » More on metadata // May 2, 2006 at 7:25 pm
[...] I don’t know if it is coincidental or not, but Tim Bray decided to write about metadata just days after Christopher Lydon’s interview with David Sifry, in which Sifry, too, spoke eloquently about the power of metadata. Bray hits a few notes I know from bitter experience, too. Historically, the difficulty of collecting metadata at source has been generally large enough to outweigh the (potentially huge) benefits from collecting it. [...]