eTech '06: Wednesday Links du Jour

• Von Kempelen - application of Amazon's Mechanical Turk market system to human translation of text, reading of scripts, etc. (An acquaintance who will go nameless observed that it should really be the Mechanical (East) Indian, considering who you're competing with...)
• eTech '06 buzzword bingo. I shoulder surfed this one off someone else in the crowd. Too funny. Now who can build this as a Web service by pointing someone's statistically significant phrase analyzer at the last few weeks of O'Reilly posts?
• Plum Blog. I need to spend a little time looking at Plum, particularly given that Hans Peter Brondmo is another old acquaintance from Apple days.
• R0ml - Owning Identity. The bit about "talking behind people's backs" resonates with my earlier notion about breach of personal compartments feeling like an affront to privacy.
• iTags. I've got to spend some time seeing what this adds to the conversation, but it's interesting given my past foray into tagging for language translation. At the 'Data Dump' session, Sifry mentioned that half of blog posts are now tagged, though he then added that 2/3 of that number are being generated from category information. Ergo, only a fraction of bloggers realize they are creating tags. Conclusion: If iTags is to make an impact, it will need to sign up some of the big blogging platform providers, who will need to make the support transparent. And BTW, given Drummond Reed's past, anyone involved should be watching the IP situation in and near this effort very carefully.