{"id":1213,"date":"2009-05-16T10:05:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T14:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2012-03-31T20:46:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T00:46:15","slug":"automagic-content-aggregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/automagic-content-aggregation\/","title":{"rendered":"Automagic content aggregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Huffington Post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/05\/14\/iwashington-timesi-run-ob_n_203413.html\">Washington Times Runs Obama Girls&#8217; Photo With Story About Murdered Chicago Kids<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Editor John Solomon <!-- \"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/political-media\/washtimes-editor-solomon-regrets-foul-up-over-pic-of-obamas-daughters\/\" -->told Greg Sargent technology, not a person, was to blame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The theme engine, through automation, grabbed a photo it thought was relevant, and attached it to the story,&#8221; Solomon said, acknowledging that the photo had gone up without a person seeing it. &#8220;There was no editorial decision to run it. As soon as it was brought to our attention, we pulled it down.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There was no editorial decision to run it&#8221;?? <\/p>\n<p>Who decided to acquire\/build a search algorithm to publish file photos without human oversight? <\/p>\n<p>The example is outrageous but using loose tags to associate photos of people to stories of crime and human tragedy? Under what circumstances does this technical solution make journalistic sense?<\/p>\n<p>Technology to blame? Not even the technologists. Doesn&#8217;t this newspaper have an editorial board?<\/p>\n<p>How about applying the same standard of care to your online property that you&#8217;d use for print?<\/p>\n<p>Mistakes happen but blaming your tools just betrays how unequipped you are to use them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Huffington Post, Washington Times Runs Obama Girls&#8217; Photo With Story About Murdered Chicago Kids Editor John Solomon told Greg Sargent technology, not a person, was to blame. &#8220;The theme engine, through automation, grabbed a photo it thought was relevant, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/automagic-content-aggregation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[277,15,45,647,648,646,644,643,70,645],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-editor","tag-ethics","tag-failure","tag-greg-sargent-technology","tag-john-solomon","tag-murdered-chicago-kids","tag-online-property","tag-search-algorithm","tag-technology","tag-washington-times"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}