Archive - Journalism

The Myopic Web: shrinking the filter bubble with Dropcat

March 07 Comments Off on The Myopic Web: shrinking the filter bubble with Dropcat Category: Feed, HackText, Journalism

Every person you follow or block, every app you use, you’re making a trade-off, the hope that this new stream of information will give you exactly what you need in exchange for closing yourself off a little more from the rest of the world. There have been a lot of things written about “the filter […]

Going to work at Salon.com

March 06 Comments Off on Going to work at Salon.com Category: Feed, HackText, Journalism

Big news! Starting next week I’ll be working with Salon.com as a Full Stack Developer. Salon has always been a website to watch and they are doing great things working with journalism, the mobile web and WordPress. When I interviewed with them, it was clear that they’ve also got plenty of awesome projects still to come. I’m […]

Blaspheming Blaspheming BuzzFeed

February 19 Comments Off on Blaspheming Blaspheming BuzzFeed Category: Feed, Journalism, Kinja

Ehhhhh. I’m not really sure about this article. So it is… an attempt to identify BuzzFeed that ends up calling it unidentifiable while criticizing others who criticize people who criticize BuzzFeed? This may be a little too deep media, even for me, b…

Peaking into Facebook’s algorithmic black box

February 04 Comments Off on Peaking into Facebook’s algorithmic black box Category: Feed, HackText, Journalism

If you came to this post from my Facebook you’ve been participating in a little not-so-scientific experiment on my behalf. For most of the month of January almost all of my Facebook shares have passed through a new site I set up with WordPress and PressForward. On Chronoto.pe I archive a copy of everything I’ve read […]