I love a bit of plain speaking in the whacky world of new media.
BBC News Labs, a favourite project of James Harding, wants to find ways of automatically exploiting its ever-increasing archive (so soon after DMI ?). They've launched a programme called NewsVANE (better read than said), and in 2014 they want to answer the following techie question...
How might we use combinations of our data sources to generate scalable relevance tools, so that we can promote the best connections across millions of content items & topics?
The first commenter responds....
Isn't the correct solution to this problem "make the BBC smaller", and not "create a computer system to try to find an audience for the huge amounts of BBC output that nobody reads, watches or listens to?"
My preferred solution ? Top-slice some of News Labs funding and employ an intelligent researcher to add a few archive links to the main online news stories of the day.
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