Bah! :-) “@dtunkelang: Jeremy Pickens Completely agree with you there. I know, I'm no fun.”

When it comes to advertising, is there any promise / ideal from its pre-IPO days that has not been broken? cnet.co/1aaNIIC

@dtunkelang Well, I think they’ve backed off of user-first even more than this particular ideal. I can give 140 char examples if you like.

Google’s early motto was “democracy on the web works”. However, isn’t modern democracy (voting) anonymous? zdnet.com/forced-google-…

Could eDiscovery create test collections in the same way that the MusicIR community has? Challenges are similar: bit.ly/1kgxK3j

Execs want fully formed Music IR product, not an iterated beta. I’ve said for a decade that music is different. theverge.com/2014/4/4/55834…

It’s better to keep the human in the loop. However, probably better for it to be explicit, rather than aggregate: recode.net/2014/04/10/the…

Interesting take: Pinterest search as exploratory search, rather than known item/informational web-like search: on.recode.net/1ihFrtb

@dtunkelang Leif Azzopardi Omar Alonso Google X is already taken.

How many of you are even human?

The tech industry often says that users are “too lazy” to engage in explicit control with its products. Not so. bit.ly/1oyayEh

“Hilary Mason: How many of you are even human?” Do odd humans count?

Big ads are like big oil. Internet environmentalism suggests that we wean ourselves from big ads, lest we wreck the virtual environment.

Hey #ticketmaster, it has been four days since I started trying to buy a ticket from you. Are you going to answer the phone or not? #fail

Still trying to buy 2 tickets from #ticketmaster. They currently have me in “Section GA, Row GA2, Seats 88”. Huh? Need to talk to a human.

@FXPALResearch Oh, yes. after like 7-8 attempts, I did. And I bought the ticket.. and it still hasn’t arrived. So I have to call again. :-(

#cikm2015 workshop accepted Evaluation of Collaborative Information Seeking and Retrieval with Lynda Tamine Tetsuya Sakai (酒井哲也) Leif Azzopardi Jeremy Pickens

Actually, it was the U1 at Reumannplatz. My own photo. ECIR2015: “That pic looks like Vienna U3 underground line at Westbahnhof”.

Explicit collaboration intersects search: #ECol2015 #CIKM2015 Workshop on Evaluation for CIR/CIS. irit.fr/ECol2015/”

I like the new Google logo font, but it’s the same font as the one my kindergarten teacher had on the wall. Continued user infantilization?