Lazycoder

Memorandum didn’t pick up on much of the PDC

I thought it was interesting that, even with the PDC in full swing and “1000′s of bloggers in the audience”, the only mentions of Microsoft at tech.Memorandum were about the BW article, the possible AOL acquisition, and one article by you Robert Scoble about Dave Winer.

Interesting.

If the site works as well as Robert and Gabe claim, then people (at least bloggers) really don’t care about Microsoft. At least not positive news about Microsoft. Either that or there is still too much human bias in the system. True machine learning is hard. It’s tough to keep hard-coded assumptions out of the system. It looks like it’s based on a “whitelist”, which means that bias has already crept into the system.

It’s an interesting experiment though.