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Racism in Tech

November 2, 2011 by Brad Feld with 92 views

There was a huge kerfluffle over the weekend about racism in Silicon Valley which tried to end when Michael Arrington wrote a post titled Oh Shit, I’m A Racist. But it didn’t end – on Monday there were stories by CNN reporter Soledad O’Brien defending herself with an article titled Michael Arrington is right (about one thing) and then a well reasoned post by Mitch Kapor titled Beyond Arrington and CNN, Let’s Look at the Real Issues. And I’m sure there will be more posts, including this one. [read more]

Search and the social graph

December 14, 2009 by Chris Dixon with 170 views

Google has created a multi-billion-dollar economy based on keywords. We use keywords to find things and advertisers use keywords to find customers. As Michael Arrington points out, this is leading to increasing amounts of low quality, keyword-stuffed content. The end result is a very spammy internet. (It was depressing to see Tim... [read more]

The proliferation of crap content and the rise of content reputation systems

December 13, 2009 by Ross Dawson with 98 views

For a number of years I’ve talked about how we are effectively reaching a world of infinite content, and the implications of that. That is becoming more real by the day, as in an economy increasingly driven by search and links, people find new ways to generate content that participates in this new information infrastructure. I wrote... [read more]

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