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5/10, 18:00 GMT: “24 films will be broadcast during a 4-hour event from 6 locations worldwide in 7 languages to be viewed through internet, television or cellphones. Purpose: to encounter the lives of others and focus on what makes us similar.”
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Want a good, diverse dose of the world? Browse these videos.
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“Serendipity gives you broccoli as you search for chocolate. It turns out to be just right. It doesn’t require you to identify as a global citizen. Follow your interest in sumo wrestling and discover a debate abt Japanese identity and Asian politics.”
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Based on the Unsuggester search results you can force expose yourself to other things that might otherwise pass quietly by you. The potential for new discoveries is actually much greater with negative suggestions than it ever will be with those that cater
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If you must use a Captcha, use this one: “reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher.”
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Homophily “is the source of many of my instances of writer’s block. I also can see how it would make me a little lazy as a thinker–not as many challenges to my worldview. Am I encountering things that fundamentally shake my worldview?”
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Oh, geez, I SO wish I’d been around for this experiment in homophily and polarization, which happened in 2006 in Boulder and Colorado Springs.
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“I’m trying understand is the process that people go through to reach a higher level of caring for human beings outside of their immediate circle. I think that this process holds the key for some of the important contributions that technologies can make.”
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Research article I’ll have to read…
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“If tech early adopters see they’re not representative and work to engage others, these tools may then evolve inclusively. But if they forget they’re outliers and fail to consider others, it’s unlikely that these tools will be broadly useful.”
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Interesting take on how homophily functions through selective filtering/interpretation, via mainstream media and blogs. Also cites some psychology research.
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