This gave me another idea. Remember the ValdisKrebs analysis of the
network of Amazon book recommendations?
http://www.orgnet.com/leftright.html (01)
Well, if you were viewing a *network* of Amazon recommendations, rather
than just the 1-level links, you'd be much better able to pick a book
fitting your taste. Especially if starting from a book like "What Went
Wrong" which links to very different book populations. (Whether this is
a "good thing for society" is a separate discussion.) (02)
Bill Seitz wrote: (03)
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> Another idea is to allow stupid linking, but use a richer interface
> that would make "false" matches more obvious. Say a
> TouchGraph/IdeaGraph view that showed your Cast node linking to
> PeterJ's Cast node, but you would see that PeterJ's other nodes
> connected to Cast were about Metalsmithing, while your nodes close to
> Cast were about Theater. So you'd just ignore that signal. (04)
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