Clipped from socialcapital.wordpress.comInternet showing you what they think you want, not what you needUnlike in the past, this is not “opt in” cyberbalkanization but automatic. And since it happens behind-the-scenes, you can’t know what you’re not seeing. One’s search of Tunisia on Google might not even tell you about the political uprising if you haven’t expressed interest in politics in the past. Eric Schmidt of Google said “It will be very hard for people to watch or consume something that has not in some sense been tailored for them.”Pariser notes that we all have internal battles between our aspirational selves (who want greater diversity) and our current selves (who often want something easy to consume). In most of our lives or Netflix queues we continually play out these battles with sometimes our aspirational selves winning out. These filter bubbles edit out our aspirational selves when we need a mix of vegetables and dessert. Pariser believes that the algorithmic gatekeepers need to show us things that are not only junk food but also things that are challenging, important and uncomfortable and present competing points of view. We need Internet ethics in the way that journalistic ethics were introduced in 1915 with transparency and a sense of civic responsibility and room for user control.Read more at socialcapital.wordpress.com
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Not just Ethical, but Aspirational Enabling Synthetic Salience
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Score one for the #Egosphere
http://silverton.amplify.com/2011/04/19/score-one-for-the-egosphere/
During the first year of Twitter, we talked about the inevitable emergence of competing attention frameworks: #Egosphere vs. #Cognosphere. Personalities more inclined to use this technology to feed the ego, versus those who would use it to feed, augment, and extend the mind.
The emergence of Twitter Jumbotrons is like a second or third order derivative of the egosphere. At it’s core, Twitter coaxes many people into feeling as if hundreds, thousands, or millions are listening and hanging on our every word. People aren’t, even in the millions-of-followers category, but it can feel that way.
What’s amusing is that these vain hopes — born of a deep cultural starvation for positive recognition, affirmation — are further amplified in this context. The Jumbotwittertron beckons that YOUR fleeting thought “may be being seen by tens of thousands of people” and that people should therefore employ even more of their already scarce attention into “brainstorming” the composition of that fleeting tweet.
Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame has dwindled to less than 15 seconds. There are deeply provocative implications to all this, but we’ll need to save that for another time because I’ve already pressed the boundaries of average attention available for thoughts like this one. I’m grateful for the investment.Clipped from http://www.mediabistro.comKaty Perry (@Katy Perry) is using her Twitter fame in her offline life now, too: she’s bringing out giant “Twitter jumbotrons” during her live concerts to display tweets and twitpics from her fans to get them amped up about the show. So if you’ve got tickets to see Perry any time soon, start brainstorming an ultra-witty tweet or two – they just might be seen by tens of thousands of people.
Perry’s California Dreams 2011 will be the first live concert tour to feature Twitter this prominently. Each show will have its own unique hashtag that fans can add to their tweets, and those selected will appear on the massive on-stage screens before the show starts.Read more at http://www.mediabistro.com
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The story of the stimulus
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/the-story-of-the-stimulus/
Christy Romer's math looked similar to mine: even given what we knew last December, the straight economics said that we should have a stimulus much bigger than the Obama administration's initial proposal.
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