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The rise of the meme

September 8, 2008 - 5:54 pm - by Richard Fernandez
jwillie
2008-09-08 21:07:16

Riffing off Shannon’s information theory, the ideal web discovery mechanism would dynamically calculate a “personalized” signal-to-noise ratio for every link one encounters on the web, weighting all prospective incoming signals according to the reader/viewer’s continually updated information preferences, inclusive of trusted sources and their derivatives, etc. If only i could entrepreneurially riff a few of the inherent economic possibilities…