Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"

About this talk: 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.



This is a subject that has worried me greatly since I realized the implications of getting information tailored to my interests. Another thing I worry about is that the lack of exposure to new things will stifle creativity.

21st Century Literacy

Literacy doesn't necessarily have the same meaning today as it has in the past. A newly coined word for today's understanding of literacy is "transliteracy".

"Every Day is Full of Teachable Moments""

On the CBS Early Show this morning Kenneth C. Davis, author of the Don't Know Much About series, talked with Harry Smith about the importance of staying informed in 2009. How to do it? " Go to the public library. "Librarians should be in charge of things. They're helpful and it's free." Did he also say librarians should run the government? Or was that just my wishful thinking?


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