On Information
the past, present, and future of how we find, monetize, and relate to information.
sari and
On Information
. Years ago, the idea that online life would be dominantly funded by advertising coalesced into conventional wisdom, and we’ve been living with the consequences ever since. The utopian assumption that views and clicks would accrue to the highest-quality content failed to understand a basic lurking reality - that the monetization of attention leads
... See moreFreddie deBoer • The Bitter End of "Content"
Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online
amazon.com
Switch off the infinity machine, not forever, nor because there is anything bad about it, but out of recognition of our own finitude: there is only so much information any of us can bear, and we cannot go fishing in the stream if we are drowning in it
Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
Ann Blair • 3 highlights
amazon.com
The information in your news feeds is curated for interest or surprise. As such, the news is not a record of the ordinary but the extraordinary—a reflection not of reality but of precisely that which is uncharacteristic of reality.
-Gurwinder