Rare
Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of rare is changing in the age of information abundance; http://eicker.at/Rare
The interest graph: spanning serendipity vs. search, personalised vs. popular information/news; http://eicker.at/InterestGraph
Growing up digital, wired for distraction; http://eicker.at/1m vs. open ideas about utilizing technology; http://eicker.at/1n
Arment on Instapaper: I want to add features that help people with information overload management; http://eicker.at/u
Pew: Americans are spending more time with the news than a decade ago. Online beats newspapers; http://j.mp/cYUBan
Google: Priority Inbox for Gmail fights eMail overload by displaying emails in order of importance; http://j.mp/bLJVU1
Scientists say juggling incoming information can change how people think and behave; http://j.mp/cxB30P
Hersman on Twitter: Creating navigation tools for digital information is the next big challenge; http://j.mp/2IXCx7
Rosenstiel: “In the last two years, people have begun to do more than replace old news platforms with new ones. Instead, the numbers suggest that people are beginning to exploit the capacity of the technology to interact with information differently. – The numbers also reveal some older publications, because of their strengths, are appealing to new audiences in ways they almost certainly never could have without the creative destruction and promise of the digital age. Regular readers of The New York Times are young – 34% are younger than 30, compared with 23% of the public – suggesting that a new generation of readers is discovering virtues of the newspaper that had been known as the Old Gray Lady. The growing popularity of search engines, directing people to sites like nytimes.com, apparently has had an effect. – It all points to something we might have forgotten. The medium may not quite be the message, as Marshall McLuhan argued two generations ago. But the medium does make a difference. Different platforms serve us differently, and there is now more evidence people are integrating all of them into their lives.”