Transition from Youtube Journaling to WikiLens

It appears that YouTube is not a personalized recommendation system.  Instead YouTube is only keeping track of Favorites so the user can go back and re-watch the videos again.  The ratings are not being used to recommend videos with similarities and that are enjoyed by users with similar interests in videos.  The ratings are only being used to rank how popular a video is.  Popularity determines rank in search results.  If two users with dissimilar interests that have rated videos query the same thing, they will receive the same videos.  Those videos will always link to the same videos regardless of declared preference.  The linking is determined by the user that has submitted the video and by videos with similar words in the title.

Since this is the case, I will be switching the focus of my journal to WikiLens.  It is a recommender engine that I have covered in one of my earlier posts.  I will begin establishing a more in depth user profile and will also begin a new recommender topic using the engine.  I think that it will most likely have something to do with cycling.  At the moment I am testing the feasibility of routes, bikes, races, teams, shops and vehicles for cyclists.