emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) (06/21/91)
In article <RYAN.91Jun19141831@ra.cs.umb.edu> ryan@ra.cs.umb.edu (Daniel R. Guilderson) writes:
I think
we should be discussing ways which we could distribute the work load
as widely as possible so that noone person is overly burdened.
"burden" is perhaps too strong a word; I like what I'm doing.
Maybe it will work, maybe not, but I think it is a better idea than
having one person or one company sifting through megabytes of crap to
find a few gems.
Actually, it's kind of neat to be able to sift through 30 megabytes a
day and pick out 30K of useful information; unfortunately, it just
takes a little too long, because I haven't translated my knowlege
about what it is that makes up a "gem" posting into code yet. That's
one reason for going commercial on some part of it -- there is code
out there that I could buy or license right now which would make the
job easier. The market that's driving it is the financial market, all
of those people sitting watching the Dow Jones news wire and
triggering alerts for them to notice one hot topic or another; several
firms have reasonable systems. (The ones I know of off the top of my
head are Ful/Text from Fulcrum and Topic by Verity; no doubt there are
others.)
Think of it as part of the developmental evolution of news readers.
Instead of evaluating only the articles in each newsgroup, the modern
newsreader gets a "full feed" and looks at each article using criteria
which span multiple newsgroup boundaries. So you could easily look
for discussions that are going on in multiple places, or find people
and follow their postings no matter where they're posting them, or (as
we have now as a special case) find all of the new source posting
announcements. Everyone sifts through megabytes of crap to find a
few gems; it's time for that technology to be more widely available.
--
Edward Vielmetti, moderator, comp.archives, emv@msen.com
"(6) The Plan shall identify how agencies and departments can
collaborate to ... expand efforts to improve, document, and evaluate
unclassified public-domain software developed by federally-funded
researchers and other software, including federally-funded educational
and training software; "
"High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, S. 272"