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So the game of the week must be 'Which mainstream bloggers are using content generation tools?'

And the next big thing in startups is going to be filtering out algorithmically generated content.

Thus leading to a coevolutionary arms race where generators and filters are getting better and better until mere humans are outclassed. Automated comment bots and semantic maps of key demographic groups become dominant, generations of marketing lore gets coded into verbiage generators leading to an end state where the entire universe of online discourse is generated by Robert Scoble pushing a button, repeatedly.

I've read quite a number of blog posts recently that have been written in English that's seemed strangely clunky and unnatural, in a style very similar to the intro text on the Datapresser home page.

I initially put it down to posts being authored by people for whom English is a second language, but they're US-based blogs. This initially dodgy-sounding idea starts to seem plausible.

The personal subscription $25CDN is "limited" to 500 posts/day. Even TC doesn't post that much.

I think the real discussion is moving to Twitter-like mediums (short and quick - who has time for blogging). Looking at Techmeme, it looks like a lot of the discussion isn't really - just rehashing (no time for analysis)

You get -100 "awkward writing in article" was because the machine wrote it. Did you not read the post?

As general content degrades, all the more that eventually we're going to see some form of information and content delivery certification emerge, not unlike what Underwriters Laboratories do for for product and material goods safety and quality, or what the USDA and FDA try to do for food and drug quality. Perhaps something akin to the movie and game content ratings, but adding fact checking.

A voluntary certification system could help people trust content. Search engines could apply web content providers' quality group affiliation (or lack thereof) to search heuristics.

Maybe it will be NGO based, maybe government run, depending on where you are in the world. I'd opt for the NGO approach myself, with a healthy number of competing organizations, especially considering China's effective use of content control as an extreme case.

A danger here, though, is if we move to "seals of approval" web content and the majority of individuals and groups avoid content that does not have a "seal of approval" then there are going to be barriers to entry, such as the various costs that members of associations pay for services.

In his prescient 1972 speech "The Android and the Human"