Monday, June 12, 2006

The danger of letting machines think for us

Besides The Terminator, I mean.

In an article on Yahoo news about Robert Scoble's leaving MS to move to PodTech, I found (in addition to a bunch of typos, including a consistent misspelling of Scoble's blog name) the following paragraph (copied with link intact):

***Outside, he became known for his commentary on Internet industry trends through his blog, Scobilizer, and via a book he co-wrote with Shel
Israel titled: "Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers."***

Notice the link to a Yahoo news search for "Israel" - the country - as the last name of Israel, the person. Do they even HAVE human editors over there?