Publishing Newsalgorithms / anonymity / book bags / book-covers / Fanny Hill / gender / genre / obscenity3 Comments
Deep Neural Network Learns to Judge Books by Their Covers – Two researchers at Japan’s Kyushu University – Brian Kenji Iwana and Seiichi Uchida – created an algorithm to detect genre by book cover image. Although their results were not stunning (exact match only 20% of the time and top three 40% ... more >
Publishing Newsalgorithms / love / neuroscience / reading / Twitter / wedding ring7 Comments
Put Down the Pitchforks—A Twitter Algorithm Won’t Ruin Anything – I (probably) never say that I feel sorry for the guys who run Twitter, but his weekend, it was kind of funny watching the surprised responses to so much anger over Twitter’s proposed algorithmic ordering of tweets. Why? Because you have ... more >
Publishing Newsalgorithms / Amazon / big data / book tours / gender sex / Jeff Bezos / journalism / New-York-Times / Promotion / washington post7 Comments
Hacking through Amazon’s jungle of coverage -Much has been written about Amazon and about the New York Times’ recent piece on Amazon’s work culture, with even the paper’s own Margaret Sullivan suggesting that the article needed more “irrefutable proof” and less “generalization and anecdote.” That I found some of the insights ... more >
Publishing NewsAdobe / algorithms / Facebook / film adaptation / Gamergate / reading / Relationships / timeline / Twitter39 Comments
If you don’t like algorithmic filters, you’re probably not going to like the future of Twitter – So it looks like Twitter is, indeed, starting to model itself a bit more after Facebook, at least with its anticipated move to algorithmically filtered timelines. Ironically, this change seems to privilege intermittent ... more >
Publishing Newsalgorithms / Book Awards / Facebook / Guinness World Record / Jane Austen / Literary fiction / news feeds / Twitpic / Twitter3 Comments
Twitpic Is No Longer Shutting Down – Although there have been no other details forthcoming, I’m hoping that TwitPic’s tweet today means that we won’t lose this vital support service for Twitter: “We’re happy to announce we’ve been acquired and Twitpic will live on! We will post more details as ... more >
Publishing Newsalgorithms / Amazon / Apple / BEA / Beats / Bonnier / digital publishing / eBay / Germany / Hachette / James Patterson / streaming music4 Comments
Apple’s Beats deal is bad news for these two companies – So now that the Apple – Beats deal is officially confirmed, the predictions shift into full gear. Will Beats bring Apple back to its glory days? Will it end up being an expensive flop? And what about other online services? Yahoo ... more >