{"id":141,"date":"2012-12-24T04:19:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T09:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2012-12-24T04:19:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T09:19:04","slug":"the-web-we-still-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/the-web-we-still-have\/","title":{"rendered":"The web we still have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dashes.com\/anil\/2012\/12\/the-web-we-lost.html\">facebookification of the Internet<\/a>\u00a0brings with it a stupidification of the content that people produce and share.<br \/>\nThe old web was about blog posts (long, though-out pieces of writing) which automatically form links to each other (through trackback) so that a conversation can emerge without the need for a centralized service.<\/p>\n<p>Trackbacks are awesome! For example, I can make this post appear on quora if I embed some javascript (their embed code) which will ping the quora server:<br \/>\n<span class=\"quora-content-embed\" data-name=\"Machine-Learning\/Does-Topic-Modeling-need-a-training-stage-when-using-Gibbs-sampling-And-why-does-it-work\/answer\/Ivan-Savov\/quote\/194670\">Read <a data-width=\"575\" data-height=\"1514\" class=\"quora-content-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/Machine-Learning\/Does-Topic-Modeling-need-a-training-stage-when-using-Gibbs-sampling-And-why-does-it-work\/answer\/Ivan-Savov\/quote\/194670\" data-embed=\"2vWm3Iu\" data-type=\"quote\" data-id=\"194670\" data-key=\"b618927a18dab7587156a0a21d051db4\">Quote of Ivan Savov&#8217;s answer to Machine Learning: Does Topic Modeling need a training stage when using Gibbs sampling? And why does it work?<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\">Quora<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/widgets\/content\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We need to cherish this kind of distributed technology, because it is the way out of the walled gardens. They are the living proof that you can have social without central.<\/p>\n<p>LDA, BTW, is short for Latent Dirichlet Allocation which is a powerful way to classify documents according to the topics they contain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The facebookification of the Internet\u00a0brings with it a stupidification of the content that people produce and share. The old web was about blog posts (long, though-out pieces of writing) which automatically form links to each other (through trackback) so that a conversation can emerge without the need for a centralized service. Trackbacks are awesome! For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}