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It’s nice to see someone trying to do something a little experimental to help people get an overview of the messages on the message boards they use.
They say initial feedback has been positive - hard to tell whether that is just because people react well when researchers pay attention to them but they intend to continue keeping an eye on the experiment.
I hope it is successful - we need new “blue sky” thinking to make online communities more approachable and useful - and I hope if it is useful they release the enabling software into the public domain.
The paper about the research is here - Rehman Mohamed is one of the researchers.
Thanks to Mathemagenic for the link.
This looks really intriguing. I will certainly be interested in seeing how this develops
Comment by P Telford — 26 April, 2004 @ 11:25