“As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. …”
Article: The Internet Archive’s Physical Archive: A New Project Playground? (From Library Journal.com).
Firefox 5 was released this week, and Firefox 4 was retired. (version 3.6.x is still supported)
Games + Learning + Society – http//gameslearningsociety.org
IdeaLab at Carlton College, creative space for faculty, staff and students to show what can be done with technology – http://apps.carleton.edu/weitz/VirtualTour/IdeaLab/
Mystery at MIT – http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/
Poll Everywhere – http://www.polleverywhere.com/
Head Magnet – http://headmagnet.com/
POPUP, Psychology project using Kogneato – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsuZ_FhxkGg&feature=share
Conan’s editing team reviews Final Cut Pro X
The Ted talk on filtering bubbles is worth watching – thanks for sharing that. It’s really a form of censorship. Time to use another search engine.
More discussion about the “filter bubble” or echo chamber, from On the Media: http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/06/17/06