@mattmcalister
- just added video assets, homepage lineup, editor's picks and more new features to the @openplatform Content API: http://bit.ly/cWvBi7 4 hrs ago
- celebrating our youngest's 1st bday. the baby years are finally coming to a close for us all. very happy. 5 days ago
- Time's Top 50: 'as other British newspapers go behind paywalls, the Guardian opens up its content for developers' http://is.gd/eDIUy 6 days ago
- inspiring essay on purpose in business by Gary Hamel http://instapaper.com/zkmpos51n 1 week ago
- gave my blog a refresh while fixing security holes. now need a good picture for the header. http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/ 1 week ago
- congrats, Don! “@donlbe: just joined @typekit.” 1 week ago
- tweaked my twitter lists a bit to see how paper.li will react. this is becoming a good read now http://paper.li/mattmcalister/noticers 1 week ago
- good fun yesterday w guardian tech team at Bletchley Park and then Inception. thanks @leftback! 1 week ago
- turning diminishing returns into increasing returns and other great insights by @jhagel on new ways of working http://bit.ly/azZ8yU 2 weeks ago
- the web is more like an awkward teenager with cuter younger sibblings than something fading into oblivion: http://bit.ly/aMLHBy 2 weeks ago
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- Republishing articles from ProPublica
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Daily Archives: November 19, 2007
The problem with being popular (part 2)
One of the more interesting sciences, in my mind, is how information relevance is both determined, surfaced and then evolved. In Fred Wilson’s recent Cautionary Techmeme Tale he argues that making news popular takes away its social context and therefore … Continue reading
Posted in attention, behavior, community, culture, media, peer production, personalization, recommendations, social media, theory, trends, yahoo
Tagged commercial institutions, consumption practices, driven models, fred wilson, good night and good luck, information relevance, media consumption, network of friends, power structures, techmeme
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