Comments on: Holovaty’s Law of Online News

By: Michael Andersen

Michael Andersen — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:26:11 +0000

Second corollary? The value of structured information is realized mostly in the future, not the present. (More here. From back in the day!)

By: AramZS

AramZS — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:18:11 +0000

This is great, I can’t wait for the next part.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:29:53 +0000

Another idea (and potential corollary): adding structured data about how the news was reported increases the transparency of the media organization. This structured data could include story notes, sources, etc.

By: Notes from a Teacher - Monday squibs (illness edition)

Notes from a Teacher - Monday squibs (illness edition) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:31:11 +0000

[...] Holovaty’s Law of Online News. Joshua Benton’s original article dealt with comments and gave us the first corollary to Holovaty’s Law, which Albert Sun provides, along with the theorem. [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:28:32 +0000

Scratch that, I read the blog post you linked to. Check out Freebase. I think are sets of structured data which can be built from content, but difficulty isn't in determining what those data sets are but rather how they should be displayed.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:16:17 +0000

Could you clarify on how you define “structured data”?