pulitzercenter:

NewsHour or Family Guy?

Iron Man 2 or Waiting for Superman?

We constantly make choices between consuming information junk food versus information veggies. Google, Yahoo! News and Facebook keep track of those choices and alter our search results accordingly based on what they think you’ll click on. Too many veggies? Too much junk food? Sometimes, an algorithm based on your clicks can throw the info-diet off.

Above is Eli Pariser on the “filter bubble,” a new kind of gatekeeper and why we might have the internet story wrong.

This feels important. I’m not sure that algorithms are the best way to introduce people to new, challenging, and important (important to whom?) ideas, but it’s a good way to get the conversation started.

Also, I have Rashomon in my Netflix cue.

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