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Re:Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by jseliger on Saturday February 24, 2024 @02:30PM (#39494453)
I just wish they'd stop trying to add AI and automated topic highlighting which clearly doesn't work.

A bunch of companies are also doing or attempting to do AI and automated trial finding for clinical trials, and that's not working either: https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/please-be-dying-but-not-.... Fortunately, the stakes are low, since patients who don't find the right clinical trial for cancers will only die.

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Re:Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by orzig on Saturday February 24, 2024 @05:51PM (#39495871)
Do you think the solution is better software, or is real blocker on the business/policy/cultural/incentives side? Inspired by that series I looked into building a better front end for clinical trials.gov but after seeing a few organizations try similar approaches without (yet) nailing it, I became convinced that I’d become one more classic naive-technologist story.

But have the existing approaches really missed a low hanging solution, even if it’s partial and maybe impossible to monetize?

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