I’m listening to the fascinating Christopher Lydon interview of Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati. Sifry defends editors, or says the discussion/debate about editors (as witnessed — and read by both Lydon and Sifry — by Jeff Jarvis) really obsures the point: saving time. Editors save time, and the collaborative filtering does, too. Sifry says that Technorati shows the real promise of collaborative filtering.
Other notes:
- Sifry calls blogging “an incredible lesson in civics for a new generation” — he’s emphasizing the ‘markets are conversations’ theme.
- RSS… he doesn’t care about the format wars, just that there ARE formats
- metadata is “tactical” — Google starts with one piece (the link)… now add when and just those two pieces of metadata create an explosion of applications
- “The one thing that this economy revolves around, this web economy, is an economy of attention. The one thing we don’t have enough of is time.”
- “Votes of attention” is a repeated phrase.
- Go to Sifry’s Alerts and look at my blogroll.
Near the end of the interview, Lydon notes that he is trying to create a “voice-driven analog to this whole blogsphere” in his blog. [Interview is in MP3 format; 30+ minutes long.]