On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:30:31PM -0500, Gabe Rubin wrote:
> This sounds real interesting!
>
> I remember a little while ago there was discussion of Isaac allowing a
> "trusted" someone to host a recommendation database that updates your
> recording schedule. Basically an output of what you record and
> recommendations based on what other people record, and this could be
> done on a purly voluntary and anonymous basis. Would this program
> allow for that functionality?
It is the beginning of it. It can import from any web URL lists of
recommended recordings (with weights.) If another program were to
generate those lists based on data it gathered from users, it would
do what you suggest.
Indeed, long term I do envision modifying the delete menu (and perhaps
others) to add a "Rate this program" option which would then let you
put out positive and negative ratings after watching a show which would
be fed to a web site that amalgamates them into recommendations.
(Ideally you would want what's now called collaborative filtering on those
so you use the reccys of people like yourself.)
However, there are some interesting problems to solve to do this:
a) Privacy -- one would suggest you install "tor" and the data be
uploaded via that.
which is hard to mix with
b) Anti-spam -- how to stop studios and fans from flooding the
data with recommendations for their choice? You can have accounts,
which impairs the anonymity functions, so you need anonymous
accounts with reputations
So I suspect before we do that, we will start with something simpler,
which is existing TV critics. We are going to try to get some to
put up their recommendations -- you can become a critic yourself, all
it takes is putting a text file on your web site with a list of shows
and ratings -- and then we can write scripts to amalgamate the critics
so that (like rottentomatoes or google movies) you auto-record anything
all the critics are loving.
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On another note, I simplified the install process. It is now just:
tar xvf tvwish.tar ; cd tvwish
make test (optional)
make personal
... personalize your choices ...
... add entry to crontab ...
At least if all goes well. This is a beta, I have not had many testers
yet, so I welcome them.
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