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lsanger

192 karma · joined November 22, 2014

President, Knowledge Standards Foundation. Building an encyclosphere. Co-founder, Wikipedia (and many others).
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lsanger··on Infobitt – A movement to do for the news what Wikipedia did for encyclopedias
Not really. Google doesn't summarize facts. It aggregates articles into clusters, which is useful, but it doesn't save us much time. Google also does a rather poor job of ranking the importance of stories, and often has old news for a long time and breaking news relatively late (or later than a motivated community, like Twitter, can have it).
lsanger··on Infobitt – A movement to do for the news what Wikipedia did for encyclopedias
I started Wikipedia back in 2001 and after a long string of nonprofits have started Infobitt.com, which is, sort of, Wikipedia for news. We scour the web for facts about a given story, aggregate hand-written summaries of the facts, rank-order them, and rank-order whole stories (collections of facts = bitts) as well. At scale, we will make news less noisy and more efficient to catch up on. My claim is that only a giant online community could do this--traditional news orgs aren't big enough, and algorithms aren't sophisticated enough (any more than they're sophisticated enough to write Wikipedia).
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