http://everwas.com/2008/11/techmeme-is-hiring.html Ian Kennedy's Blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://everwas.com/2008/11/techmeme-is-hiring.html/comment-page-1#comment-4085 iankennedy Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:15:00 +0000 http://everwas.com/?p=1821#comment-4085 That's exactly what Factiva and all infopro librarians have been doing but on a subscription services that uses a proprietary query language. Gabe has built his service grepping relevance from the open web which is a much more marketable talent in the long run. The killer combination would be someone with the editorial/librarian nose for good sources and the technical chops to parse relevance out of raw data. Adrian Holovaty's work with everyblock and the Kansas Lawrence-Journal online site come to mind. <a href="http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2006/09/06/0307/ " target="_blank"><a href="http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2006/09/06/0...</a>" target="_blank">http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2006/09/06/0...</a></a> That's exactly what Factiva and all infopro librarians have been doing but on a subscription services that uses a proprietary query language. Gabe has built his service grepping relevance from the open web which is a much more marketable talent in the long run. The killer combination would be someone with the editorial/librarian nose for good sources and the technical chops to parse relevance out of raw data. Adrian Holovaty's work with everyblock and the Kansas Lawrence-Journal online site come to mind. <a href="http://www.holovaty.com/blog/a.....9/06/0307/ " target="_blank"><a href="http://www.holovaty.com/blog/a.....&quot; target="_blank">http://www.holovaty.com/blog/a...../a&gt;

]]> http://everwas.com/2008/11/techmeme-is-hiring.html/comment-page-1#comment-4084 Kathleen Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:18:00 +0000 http://everwas.com/?p=1821#comment-4084 Isn't this what Factiva-types have been/should've been trying to do for years???? Falls into "the more things change, the more they stay the same" Isn't this what Factiva-types have been/should've been trying to do for years???? Falls into &quot;the more things change, the more they stay the same&quot;

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