http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/21/random-houses-new-facebook-app-if-you-liked-evelyn-waugh-youll-love-the-berenstain-bears/ The economics of digital content Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:42:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/21/random-houses-new-facebook-app-if-you-liked-evelyn-waugh-youll-love-the-berenstain-bears/#comment-197836 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:43:48 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=223446#comment-197836 There is so much of this single experience that points to far too much faith in data that is informally collected. Services like Pandora often fail me as well — but I think with books there is an additional issue of a very high percentage of title metadata that is far too idiosyncratic. Its “only cool if it works,” yet even the best programming will ultimately suck because of the data it relies on — garbage in, garbage out.

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