Author Archives: jeremy

Collaborative Information Seeking: Intent

Posted on March 18, 2009 by jeremy

Over on the FXPAL blog, Gene and I added the 2nd of a series of posts mapping out the collaborative information seeking systems domain.  Here is an excerpt: When we view collaboration from the IR perspective, it becomes clear that … Continue reading →

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Why No Exploratory Search on the Web?

Posted on March 16, 2009 by jeremy

Daniel makes a provocative statement: “One of the recurring objections to exploratory search is that it can’t work for the web.” While I suspect that he is correct about this being the common wisdom, I find myself wondering about the … Continue reading →

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Overloaded Operator: Collaboration

Posted on March 13, 2009 by jeremy

I just want to announce that over on the FXPAL blog, Gene Golovchinsky and I are starting a series of posts about what we think it means to collaborate during the information seeking process. There are many different dimensions and … Continue reading →

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Computers and Poetry

Posted on March 12, 2009 by jeremy

I first became fascinated with the relationship between computers, information, language, and emotion back in 1984 when I read an Analog article about a computer than had been used to automatically generate poetry.  A week later, I was on my … Continue reading →

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Creating Passionate Search Users

Posted on March 10, 2009 by jeremy

I was listening recently to a podcast on IT Conversations, published 1/17/2009, entitled “Creating Passionate Users”.  It is a conversation between Tim O’Reilly and Kathy Sierra.   Tim O’Reilly: You talk about creating passionate users.  What are some of the … Continue reading →

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Music and GooTube

Posted on March 9, 2009 by jeremy

Google has had somewhat of an odd relationship over the years to music information, and music information retrieval.  They’ve never really had a consistent policy, research, or product agenda around music.  The specifics of that history is too rich to … Continue reading →

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Exploration and Explanation

Posted on March 9, 2009 by jeremy

Sometimes, the story is as good as the moral.  Sometimes, the journey is as good as the destination.  So in Information Retrieval, why are we too often satisfied with producing results, but not with explaining how the results were arrived … Continue reading →

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Genome Music

Posted on March 6, 2009 by jeremy

Somehow, I don’t think this is what the Pandora.com founders had in mind when they created the Music Genome Project a decade ago at Stanford: After creating pictures from the human DNA code and getting an incredible amount of positive response, the … Continue reading →

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Google to become a Music Content Company?

Posted on March 5, 2009 by jeremy

Some speculation from Liz Gannes of the GigaOM network: YouTube and Universal Music Group are in talks to create a music video site called “Vevo,” according to reports by CNET and the Wall Street Journal […] Creating a labels-only music video site would shatter … Continue reading →

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Ranked Lists and the Paradox of Choice

Posted on March 4, 2009 by jeremy

A thread in the comments section over on Daniel’s blog prompted me to think about the issue of ranked list results presentation in a new manner.  How do we decide how far to scroll down a ranked list of results, … Continue reading →

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