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The Taste Blog is an aggregation of Paul Lamere's favorite blogs about recommendation.

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Aug
18th
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Guardian column: Do we need editors?

This week’s Guardian column asks whether editors are a luxury we can afford. (There’s a separate version online here where comments can and I suspect will be made.)
Aug
17th
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Playing with Last.fm tags Anthony Liekens has put together a few web tools that do fun things with Last.fm tags. One tool is Compare User Tag Clouds. This tool takes two last.fm users calculates a tag cloud for each…
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Media on media I’m set to be on Howie Kurtz’ Reliable Sources at 10a EDT today to talk about the waste and hubris of sending 15,000 journalists to the political conventions and how we over-report politics and…
Aug
15th
Fri
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Cassandra data store at Facebook Avinash Lakshman, Prashant Malik, and Karthik Ranganathan presented a talk at SIGMOD 2008, “Cassandra: Structured Storage System over a P2P Network”, that describes a Google Bigtable-like data…
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Y Combinator's list of startup ideas Paul Graham at Y Combinator posts an interesting list of “Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund”.

My favorites are Fix Advertising, Fixing E-mail Overload, and New News.

Found via John Cook, who…
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How to build a network I was talking with a media exec who started a blog ad network — bless him — but who I thought was taking too high a share of the revenue: at least half. That’s a natural reflex, perfectly…
Aug
14th
Thu
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If you like Jimi Hendrix you might like .. Here’s a recommendation from AmazonMp3.com that registers high on the relevance scale but a bit low on the novelty and serendipity scale.

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This is not necessarily a bad…
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What is your late breaking ISMIR demo? There’s a thread over on the Facebook ISMIR group where people are posting the title and abstract of their late breaking demo session. If you are going to be showing a demo at ISMIR next month then…
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ISMIR Conference Program The detailed conference program for ISMIR 2008 has been posted. It is pretty interesting to see all of the sessions for the week laid out. If you are speaking you can find out if you lucky enough…
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Covering conventions is an waste USA Today reports that the number of journalists covering the conventions this fall will remain at the same level as 2004 and 2000: 15,000 of them. What a waste. The outcome of the conventions is…
Aug
13th
Wed
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Googlebits

A few fascinating tidbits from Jim Cramer’s interview with Google’s Eric Schmidt today:

* Google accounts for 0.7 percent of GDP, according to Goldman Sachs.
* Cramer says the ad market is $600…
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Having fun with ChucK
I couldn’t wait until Rebecca’s ISMIR tutorial on ChucK - so I downloaded the latest ChucK distribution, fired it up and worked through the reference guide. It’s a lot of fun. ChucK is a…
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Submit your papers where they are likely to be accepted

It came to me tonight. A simple idea, really.

All scientists should submit their papers where they are likely to be accepted. Oh! We all need a critical review. Sometimes we even need to be told to…
Aug
12th
Tue
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Excuses, excuses I have three weeks to edit and revise my manuscript and get ready for the start of school and go on vacation with the family and do a consulting project and help a few of the companies I’m advising…
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Cool software design insight #3 In a comment to my unit testing post, David suggested using property testing. Languages like Java, C and C++ have formalized this very idea as assert instructions. Other languages have the…