techcrunch.com — The popularity of rich media publishing is a problem for search engines and people trying to use search engines to find this content. The problem is that the traditional ways search engines index and rank content don?t apply to rich media because, well, it?s not easily indexable. That?s why I like the idea of deep tagging...
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gnutzuOct 2, 2006
True, with one caveat. I've always had this one quote from a Vonnegut novel coming back to me--something to the effect: "you shouldn't index your own book... a book should be indexed by somebody other than the author." (Ten granfalloon points to the person who can name the title.)As much as we'd like, we can't get everyone to understand indexing and keywords--let alone get them to conform to a common standard. The hope is that you've rendered your work index-able so that others will link or tag a single meaningful chunk of content. (But, even this is spotty as almost everybody is now generating content.) If the content can be easily indexed, social indexing of the content is more likely to average out to something that community of interest will understand.
gnutzuOct 3, 2006
Ten granfalloon points to chimona.And, like teachers, the pay that Librarians recieve is below average for a Master's degree. And then, I imagine that this is another profession that will fade as it is replaced by technology.
pheonix1974Oct 3, 2006
Pluggd's HearHere automagically does deep tagging on audio and video by combining speech recognition and sematic analysis.It is only a tech preview right now, but you can play withit yourself on the pluggd web site. There is also a cool screencast.<a class="user" href="http://www.pluggd.com/demo">http://www.pluggd.com/demo</a>
thatdrewOct 4, 2006
The reason why podcasters are excited about HearHere, is because it's going to unlock all of the content we work hard on every week. The way things are now, as soon as a new episode is a week old, it's never listened to again!