The New Editors of the Internet
In a small number of Silicon Valley conference rooms, decisions are being made about what people should and shouldn’t see online—without the accountability or culture that has long accompanied that responsibility.
Should Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives be the Arbiters of What We See and Read?
There have been increasingly vocal calls for Twitter, Facebook and other Silicon Valley corporations to more aggressively police what their users are permitted to see and read. Last month in The Washington Post, for instance, MSNBC host Ronan Farrow demanded that social media companies ban the accounts of “terrorists” who issue “direct calls” for violence.
What Facebook doesn’t show you
It’s not just your imagination – there are a lot of old posts in your Facebook feed.
When you spend a day with something that knows you in ways you don’t know yourself, you learn that maybe you aren’t quite as interested in the things you think you are.
The Internet’s Original Sin
It’s not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web.
The Daily Me
Some of the obituaries these days aren’t in the newspapers but are for the newspapers. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the latest to pass away, save for a remnant that will exist only in cyberspace, and the public is increasingly seeking its news not from mainstream television networks or ink-on-dead-trees but from grazing online.
When we go online, each of us is our own editor, our own gatekeeper. We select the kind of news and opinions that we care most about.
Nicholas Negroponte of M.I.T. has called this emerging news product The Daily Me. And if that’s the trend, God save us from ourselves.
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