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Things That Look Like Other Things.
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"Where Were You?" Annual.
Titans of Finance: True Tales of Money & Business
. With Josh Neufeld. Now available for the iPad! Go here.
The other day I was reading some random news story on a newspaper site — I think a Philadelphia paper, and the article was something about the McCain campaign.
At the bottom was this:
I’m interested in the stuff at right. People who read this article also bought a Movado watch? Or a portable DVD player? Really? How many people? And how is that useful information?
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Anne Elizabeth Moore's book, Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity.
Kaya Oakes' book, Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture
Elizabeth Currid's book, The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City
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Reader Comments
I strongly suspect that the articles listed are not data-mined and the “people who read this also” is just a simple framing (ie a lie) to make the items seem more attractive, referencing more intelligent programs ilke Amazon’s (which, actually, has never seemed that intelligent to me!).
In this instance it’d be hard to tell but i definitely see other ads that are misrepresenting the degree of customization. For example, ads for dating sites on Facebook that show lots of available singles in “my area” with suspiciously generic American faces and names. Pretty unlikely as i live in Catalunya…even more unlikely they all seem to live in Valls too, which is not a particularly large town nor particularly near me, probably they are pulling it from an IP address of my ISP or something…
“just a simple framing (ie a lie) to make the items seem more attractive”
I tend to agree. It’s interesting to consider the SUGGESTION of collaborative filtering as a potential influencer. Dunno if it would work, but I can certainly imagine why someone would try to make it work… or experiment with it…