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 […]
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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.
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.
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 your world-view. You’ll need to be aware of their potential pitfalls if you want to […]
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 import your Google Reader reading list, your tags will automatically become channels and will automatically […]