Comments on: Search and Govt 2.0

By: Mayuresh Phadke

Mayuresh Phadke — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:15:28 +0000

A tag based file system could help. DHTFS is a file system which allows users to tag files and creates directory hierarchies from the tags given to files.

Take a look at http://code.google.com/p/dhtfs/

By: Jason Ryan

Jason Ryan — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:51:59 +0000

Thanks Thomas.

...to get the sweet scent of desired information out of the stench left from the flood of data.

Beautiful.

By: vanderwal

vanderwal — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:05:21 +0000

The del.icio.us retrieval methods are rather poor currently. They could improve with their new build of the underlying technology. In the mean time I archieved by del.icio.us links and copied them into Ma.gnolia and can find things using their search.

There is a much greater need for improved refindability tools. Through history we flood ourselves with information, then create methods and technologies to filter through to get the sweet scent of desired information out of the stench left from the flood of data.

There are quite a few people working to get us on top of our own information archives as individuals and the collective.

By: Jason Ryan

Jason Ryan — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:27:20 +0000

Thanks Terence. You are quite right; I didn’t even attempt to tackle the issue of the quality of the content itself. After years of talking to policy wonks about their logorrheic tendencies, the enormity of the task just seems so overwhelming…

By: Terrence Wood

Terrence Wood — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:48:27 +0000

Great post.

It’s not just the tools and technology that will improve content discovery - we need good (self) editing and a reduction of meaningless metaspeak.

How much content have you seen where mulitple paragraphs can be rewritten as couple of sentences with no information loss?