links for 2009-01-11

Here's another company trying to make new filters. I think the focus on news is ok, but my incoming info streams are way more than the standard news.

"The founders tell us that the company will debut this technology on a news site that “predicts users’ interests through an automated semantic analysis of information publicly available on the web.” "

via @perryhewitt: "The discussion about journalism’s future so often focuses on Big Changes — Kill the print edition! Flips for everyone! Reinvent business models NOW! — that it’s easy to forget how simple innovation can be.

"Sometimes all you need is a few Tweets, a bunch of links, and some like-minded pioneers."

"For at least 30 years, the food industry has been labeling packaged foods with nutritional information; with the rise of the Internet, Americans have access to more such information today than ever before. Yet Americans are also fatter than ever before." Yet I wonder – self-monitoring does lead to some sort of behavior change feedback loop. If we changed the way we labeled food, say explicit graphics rather than abstract number, might it be more effective?