By now you probably have heard of the online filter bubble. You probably feel unease by the sheer number of people being encased in a filter bubble and concerned that you yourself might be trapped in one and would like to get out from your filter bubble. Let me tell you that the filter bubble is nothing new – it exists in another form before the Internet became mainstream and you can use age-old method to escape being trapped inside a filter bubble.
How to create a news show from a Twitter stream.
You can add a Twitter stream or any search result as a feed source for News Anchor channels. This is done by exporting a Twitter search result as an RSS feed.
Do you know that you can turn any Twitter stream into RSS feeds? Better yet, not only Twitter timelines from someone, but you can get just about any Twitter search result as RSS feeds and use them in News Anchor or any other RSS reader (yes, even Google Reader).
First kiss in Developing Adroid application
First, don’t get me wrong, I think writing Adroid application is a lot easier than writing Blackberry application. The documentation is a lot easier to read and understand for the average people. But since I am also doing a full…
Keep your news stream relevant and avoid the filter bubbles
How News Anchor helped us made an important decision by presenting relevant news and broke through the online filter bubbles.
Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles”
Adaptive algorithms created to personalize web experiences may have the downside of creating “filter bubbles” that limits one’s world-view.
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. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.
How Facebook and Twitter betrays you
You will can easily be betrayed by yourself if you use Facebook, Twitter, or even Google Reader for your source of daily news. These sites may lead you to succumb to your primal desires, dulls your perspective and narrow down…
Google Reader Import – News Anchor 2.3 Release Notes
We are happy to say that you can now bring your Google Reader subscriptions into News Anchor in version 2.3. This greatly simplifies the process of adding feed subscriptions into News Anchor and configuring channels for those subscriptions. When you…