[2b2k] Editorials and echo chambers
From a New Yorker article (April 9, 2012) by Adam Gopnick on Camus: Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostely not listening, than with telling the...
View Article[2b2k][mesh] Setting the record straight: Overall, the networking of...
Christine Dobby posted at the Financial Post about my session at the Mesh conference on Thursday in Toronto. She accurately captured two ideas, but missed the bigger point I was trying to make, which —...
View Article[2b2k] PDF 2012 – In Defense of Echo Chambers
Here is the text of a short talk I gave at PDF yesterday. I did not use slides, and I actually read from pieces of paper because I wanted to make sure that I stayed on time (it took about 8 minutes, I...
View Article[2b2k] Truth as meta
I’m engaged in a multi-day conversation at The Well, led by Jon Lebkowsky — join in! — about Too Big to Know, and found myself summing up the book as follows: Traditional knowledge seemed like true...
View Article[2b2k] Echo chamber examples wanted
What do you think are the best examples of Web-based echo chambers? These are the examples you’d point to if you wanted someone to see what an echo chamber is. By “echo chamber” I mean a Web site where...
View Article[2b2k] My world leader can beat up your world leader
There’s a knowingly ridiculous thread at Reddit at the moment: Which world leader would win if pitted against other leaders in a fight to the death. The title is a straightline begging for punchlines....
View Article[2b2k] Are all good conversations echo chambers?
Bora Zivkovic, the blog editor at Scientific American, has a great post about bad comment threads. This is a topic that has come up every day this week, which may just be a coincidence, or perhaps is a...
View Article[2b2k] Why it’s ok to get your news through people who share your beliefs
I was steeling myself a couple of days ago to say something in a talk that believe but don’t want to: We shouldn’t feel guilty about relying on sources with whom we agree to contextualize breaking...
View Article[shorenstein] Andy Revkin on communicating climate science
I’m at a talk by Andrew Revkin of the NY Times’ Dot Earth blog at the Shorenstein Center. [Alex Jones mentions in his introduction that Andy is a singer-songwriter who played with Pete Seeger....
View Article[2b2k] Echo chambers and the importance of like-minded thinking
I’ve found the argument against Echo Chambers to be vexing. On the one hand, I of course agree that it’s bad for us all when we only hang out with people whose views we share, because this tends to...
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