Comments on: Just like EastEnders

By: Rikki

Rikki — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:44:04 +0000

@Chris: Just out of interest, why don’t you like the recommendations? Collaborative filtering is pretty en vogue in computer science circles, hence its prevalence in such web applications.

Clearly it’s not 100% effective, but it does a pretty good job of suggesting at least a few relevant items to most people. Hopefully it’ll become more effective as user modelling becomes finer grained, more focused and up to date.

By: marion

marion — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:55:34 +0000

As someone who watched said Eastenders episode on Iplayer whilst working (on a Bank Holiday too) the connection is obvious. They both involved betrayal, torture, incarceration underground and apparent rising from the dead. Simple!

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:30:22 +0000

Dot Cotton is fond of quoting verses from the Bible – perhaps that’s the link between EastEnders and The Passion?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:50:55 +0000

That is a bit weird. But then I can’t bear that whole ‘if you liked that, you’ll like this…’/’stuff like this’ stuff on Amazon, Last FM &c &c.

Perhaps I’m missing the social algorithm gene. Or I might just be contrary…

By: Dominic Self

Dominic Self — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:27:23 +0000

Well they’re both pretty unrealistic, surely?

By: Jonathan Rothwell

Jonathan Rothwell — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:18:42 +0000

It’s because both programmes have involved someone coming from the grave in the last week.

The difference is that one of them was dead, and the other one’s programme was dead boring.