Slashdot Mirror
CmdrTaco Launches Trove, a Curated News Startup
jigamo writes "The Verge reports on a new app from Slashdot co-founder Rob Malda, a.k.a. CmdrTaco, which aims to provide a user-powered and -curated stream of news. It's called Trove, and it's currently available on the web as well as iPhones and iPads. From the article: 'Trove basically lets users opt in to feeds of stories that align with their interests. Users are encouraged to curate "troves," collections of stories that relate to a particular theme.' You can also read CmdrTaco's announcement post."
Rob says, "At its simplest, Slashdot combines editor quality control and insight with crowd-sourced harvesting to cover the 'News for Nerds' space. Trove uses automated harvesting and machine learning to simplify a workflow for curators interested in ANY topic. The idea is that this opens up non-nerdy subjects. This will let us maintain a strong signal/noise ratio for casual users less interested in expending effort to get their news across diverse subject matter."
That wasn't true even when Taco was around. Not even close. :-P
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Next thing you know, you'll do a dead tree edition.
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editor quality control
I see we're having truthiness issues.
I think that's "combines" as in "runs through a combine harvester".
What can you do? You can ignore them or try to explain why their arguments are nonsense -- just like we do with the much larger number of much better funded climate deniers whose rejection of science is much more profound and much more dangerous.
I never really understood the beef with the American slant. It's an American website. It's read mostly by Americans, and has been since the day it launched. It covers international issues in somewhat approximate measure to the participation of international nerds, but it's never been a website which specifically attempted not to have an American slant. It is what it is and it has always been that.