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Newspapers have a purpose: They help us break free of "online filter bubbles."
Posted by David Wees on May 16, 2011
When I was watching Eli Pariser's Beware Online Filter Bubbles TED talk, I wondered initially how one could work against this problem of the customization of the web. I thought to myself, wouldn't be handy if there was a way to find an assortment of almost randomly aggregated content from a wide variety of interests.
Arguments for and against Internet Filters in schools
Posted by David Wees on Jul 7, 2010
A common problem that is discussed on Twitter between educators is that they don't have full access to the Internet due to a filter installed either at their school or at the district level in their area. There are a number of arguments for and against the existence of these filters, summarized in the table below.
Disclaimer: The ideas discussed on this blog are my own, and in no way represent those of my employer.
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