Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Article and demonstration of a new approach to what the author calls a 'context management system' (CXMS) (my abbreviation; the author doesn't provide one). In the CXMS "journalists would upload all the material they've gathered into a central repository where it can be sorted and tagged automatically... he journalist no longer spends time packaging a story into a fixed format - the inverted-pyramid article, the 2-minute radio hit. Instead, their role shifts to what matters most: deciding what's newsworthy, verifying what's true, and providing the analysis that no algorithm can. The format is handled by the system. The judgment stays human." I think there's merit to the idea of aggregation, but the other end of the system is just 'personalization' in new clothes.

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