Comments on: Zemanta is not for me

By: Temporary Zemanta reprieve « Knowledge Workers

Temporary Zemanta reprieve « Knowledge Workers — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:13:32 +0000

[...] I wrote earlier about my decision to dump Zemanta, Jure Cuhalev commented on the post about a new version of the software being on its way. I made a [...]

By: coldacid dot net

coldacid dot net — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:02:38 +0000

WordPress.com is an OpenID provider, but doesn’t allow others to use OpenID for login or commenting…

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By: billbennettnz

billbennettnz — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:06:33 +0000

gandalfar said

“The truth is – we work really well for some writing styles and we totally miss in some other cases.”

This makes sense to me. But I’d argue it’s probably not so much about writing styles as subject matter. Knowledge Workers is often about ideas, which are extremely difficult to illustrate. If this was a blog about cars or celebrities or something else more tangible and photo-friendly I’d expect a much higher hit rate.

When I first started using Zemanta I didn’t realize there was often more than one page of suggested images. Sometimes I get as many as four pages, the hit rate was slightly higher, but still in the region of one useful picture for every ten posts.

By: gandalfar

gandalfar — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:39:44 +0000

Thanks for giving Zemanta a try and writing such comprehensive review of your experience.

The truth is – we work really well for some writing styles and we totally miss in some other cases. We realize that images are very subjective and that manual controls are still sometime needed.

Next week we’re releasing a new version of Zemanta that will bring more personalized integration at both image and link level.

I’ll also ask our engineers to take a few of your latest blog posts and add it to our internal QA engine, so we can learn and improve on this insight.

Jure Cuhalev, Zemanta
jure@zemanta.com