Enjoyed the new Gang podcast today 

I have a great movie clip in mind to summarize its pace. I'll see if I can grab at least an audio clip of the speech.

Much later: Here it is. Mind you, I'm not carrying the analogy so far as the divine genius (well, some genius) but more the raggedy start and the idea of one voice taking over where the last left off.

Do you know the movie? You should.

Join the Facebook group, "Gillmor Group" to get the files or feed and discuss.

Leverage what humans do better 

Follow-on to yesterday's spewing about specialization: Mahalo's Kindle page is mostly links from the same old sources you'd find in machine searches based on page rank or other popularity indices. I'd think it would be smarter differentiation if the humans at Mahalo made a big effort to ferret out the specialty sources. Find those great gems from experts who go deep into a narrow topic, but don't immediately come up in a search you'd do yourself. Could be that's what is intended but it doesn't always happen in the rush to get the pages made, and when you're only paying $15 for a page of search results.

The human-powered model really would work better with a top news stories site on which you wouldn't be cranking to get to hundreds of thousands of pages. It would only try to cover maybe 25 big stories at any given time. It wouldn't need such a big staff, and you could afford to let the human brains spend more time discovering the very best sources.