Netflix recently awarded their $1 million prize to a seven person group of statisticians and computer scientists for improving the accuracy of customer movie recommendations by ten percent.
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December 17, 2008
10 Lessons the Blogosphere Can Learn From Journalism
We’ve written previously about ways the blogosphere is influencing traditional journalism, but in the interest of being equal, we thought a recent piece by Anita Bruzzese noting ten lessons bloggers can learn from journalists was worth mentioning, particularly given the fact that more and more people are turning to alternative media sources to get their news and information.
We’ve extracted Bruzzese’s main points below and follow with our own explanations:
Trust – The most important relationship a writer has is with their readers and they should never underestimate or take advantage of that.
Fact vs. Opinion – The lines between the two are easily blurred [...]




