Eli Pariser gave a great talk at this year’s Personal Democracy Forum about Filter Bubbles. In essence: new technology gives us new ways to filter out what we don’t want to hear. But it also tends to make it so we can homogenize our information intake such that we only get the information that makes us comfortable. A great 10 minute talk.
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Information Obesity and Food Obesity
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The New Outsiders
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The Costs of FOIA
Change America with Dev Skills
Better Headphones
The Problem is Procurement
The Tragedy of Advocacy
Local Gov2
The Organizing Gap
How to Opt Out of Yellow Book Delivery
The Lies Visualizations Tell
In Defense of Lobbying
You Can't Have a Receipt for your Taxes
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Julian Assange is Destroying Wikileaks
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Tracking Government Spending
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Agnotology
Gov2 Prelude- 3 Cool Gov Technologies
Manage Pixels, not Monitors
Making Petitions not a Sham
Online Petitions are a Sham
How did Weather Data Get Opened?
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Agribusiness and Infobusiness
No Wonder it Sold for a Dollar
Don't Let the Municipal Crisis Go to Waste
Open Data needs Open Source tools
Obesity and Partisanship
Information Obesity and Food Obesity
The Anti-Shallows
How to Focus
Talk to Strangers
P Street Project
Gov IIX
Let's end programmer bigotry
Behavioral Economics, the new "misc."
Selectivity vs Critical Thinking
Why Developers Should Run for Congress
Big Society and People Power
Facts Don't Change Minds
Why I Don't Trust Julian Assange
Is Food Making Us Fat?
Brain Myths that Create Information Obesity
Are Facebook and Twitter Bad for your Information Diet?
Open Data Isn't A Cureall
Junk Information and Junk Food
Corruption Metrics
How Transparency Fails (and works, too)
Critical Thinking 101
Apps for Africa Launches
Dealing with "Information Overload"
Is Partisanship a Drug?
Why Developers are So Important
Build Communities not Apps Contests.
Bloggers and Bills
Why Infovegan?
Beyond Transparency
Eli Pariser Talks Filters
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