Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societies
Real problem are the homophily assumptions built in the selection filters (birds of a feather ought to flock together), not the filter themselves. What prevents us from creating filters that promote heterogeneity? “Eli Pariser is concerned that web personalization is only showing us content we “like,” and not content we need. But he proposed some solutions at the Mashable Media Summit.”
Via mashable.com