http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/cover_story/2017/03/twitter_s_timel
ine_algorithm_and_its_effect_on_us_explained.html
"Twitter's approach to the problem Facebook also faces, of being rewarded
for promoting viral content with little regard to its truthfulness or value,
is to
<http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/CyberNewsBytes/friday-cyber-news-3-4-3-10/7
807145-www.slate.com/articles/technology/cover_story/2017/03/twitter_s_timel
ine_algorithm_and_its_effect_on_us_explained.html?c=437c1988-147f-4ff6-84ba-
71a6c01c482c> classify tweets as "salad" or "doughnuts" and attempt to give
users a balanced diet in their newsfeed. Social network sharing can
<http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/CyberNewsBytes/friday-cyber-news-3-4-3-10/7
807149-www.nature.com/news/how-facebook-fake-news-and-friends-are-warping-yo
ur-memory-1.21596?c=437c1988-147f-4ff6-84ba-71a6c01c482c> affect the type
and strength of collective memories formed, increasing the importance of
showing users accurate information. "
"Google's featured answers, it turns out,
<http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/CyberNewsBytes/friday-cyber-news-3-4-3-10/7
807169-theoutline.com/post/1192/google-s-featured-snippets-are-worse-than-fa
ke-news?c=437c1988-147f-4ff6-84ba-71a6c01c482c> are easily gamed; this week
searches for "who is the King of the United States" and "why are firetrucks
red" demonstrated the lack of oversight over the process by which answers
are highlighted"
http://searchengineland.com/according-google-barack-obama-king-united-states
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best,
debbie
Debbie Abilock
<https://prezi.com/tftyaf7wjmds/debbie-abilock-adding-friction/> Adding
Friction, a column @SLC
"Jane Jacobs was forever taking on ambitious subjects from new directions,
marching imperturbably into all she didn't know. She'd never understand,
she told an interviewer once, how other authors could 'stand the boredom of
just writing down everything [they] already knew.' But she paid the price
for indulging her insatiable curiosity. With each new book... 'I always get
scared to death.' Caught up in complexities of a new field not at first
fully apparent, 'I realize it's too deep for me, but I have to keep on with
it.' Until she gets it."
- from Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs by Robert Kanigel;
Knopf, 2016 p. 322.
