Creating web content is incredibly easy — but filtering content is really hard. In late 2014, I realized I was reading too much bad content. I felt enraged by some of the articles I clicked on, because they were such a thoughtless waste of my time.
I got so frustrated that I decided to invest serious effort in fixing the problem on my end, instead of fruitlessly swearing at my laptop. I hoped to determine what what was non-optimal about my media habits, and how I could improve them. So I audited my habits (with a spreadsheet and everything!) — and what I learned might surprise you.
I’m not alone in my anger about clickbait and my desire for a better media diet. There’s plenty of mocking commentary about this, like The Onion’s satirical site ClickHole, or the amazing Twitter feed Saved You A Click by…
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The link below is to an article reporting on the deliberate vandalism of Anne Frank books in Japanese libraries. What is going on here?
For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/21/anne-frank-books-vandal-attacks-tokyo-libraries
Like a visiting dignitary from another world, Amazon (s amzn) CEO Jeff Bezos descended on the Washington Post newsroom on Wednesday to meet with editors and reporters at the newspaper he recently acquired for $250 million, and by most accounts the reaction from the somewhat shell-shocked staff was surprisingly positive. That could have something to do with the fact that Bezos didn’t sound at all like the tech warlord out to gut the newsroom and get everyone to produce more slideshows — in fact, he said he prefers a printed newspaper to a digital one, and he also believes that readers will pay for a “daily bundle” of news on a tablet.
The Amazon founder made a number of other points that probably sat well with the Post‘s journalists, including the idea that the paper’s primary focus should be on readers and not advertisers, and that catering to…
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The link below is to an article reporting on the next adaptation of Jules Verne’s ’20 000 Leagues Under the Sea’ to Be Made in Australia.
For more visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/02/australia-20000-leagues-remake-millions_n_2998068.html
The link below is to an article reporting on an ebook being sold through Amazon that is alleged to promote child sex tourism.
For more visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/amazon-sex-tourism-pedophilia-love146_n_1735427.html
The link below is ton an article reporting on how a man threatened a woman with a sword, all because of a mistreated borrowed book.
For more visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/christopher-meusburger-minnesota-man-threatened-neighbor-sword-mistreated-book_n_1733016.html
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