Howard Rheingold: Discovery Engines Trying–and Failing

Infotention “Managing attention & information” Created and curated by Howard Rheingold Discovery Engines: Policing The Riot Of Information Overload | Fast Company Taming this torrent into something manageable and highly relevant is increasingly seen as the key for Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and any other chaotic content network looking to realize monster revenue. That explains why …

Howard Rheingold: Editors Matter More in Cyberspace

Infotention “Managing attention & information” Created and curated by Howard Rheingold Accessibility Vs. Access: The Filter Bubble And Human Information Curation | Maria Popova On Nieman Lab Human-driven information curation is the antidote to this algorithmic disconnect between access and accessibility: The primary purpose of an editor [is] to extend the horizon of what people …

Howard Rheingold: Cooperation Theory

Introduction to Cooperation Theory A six week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter to introduce the fundamentals of an interdisciplinary study of cooperation: social dilemmas, institutions for collective action, the commons, evolution of cooperation, technologies of cooperation, and cooperative arrangements in biology from cells to ecosystems. …