This is the Lonely Web. It lives in the murky space between the mainstream and the deep webs. The content is public and indexed by search engines, but broadcast to a tiny audience, algorithmically filtered out, and/or difficult to find using traditional search techniques.
If the future will be a distributed one, Fusion wants to make sure it’s prepared.
The digital news site and cable network for millennials on Monday announced a new team to create stories and videos meant to be read and watched exclusively on social platforms. The social newsroom of 12 people includes eight who are focused on Snapchat alone. Others work on Instagram and Vine. Fusion hired Laura Feinstein, a former editor in chief of Vice’s Intel-backed Creator’s Project, to lead the group.
Fusion has put together a very interesting and useful database of all of the photos that the 2016 candidates are sharing.
(Source: fusion.net)
We need to engineer the racism out of apps | Fusion
Latoya Peterson analyses racism present in reports filed to BART Watch, the app for reporting crimes on the Bay Area’s main transit system, and the impact of how it is designed:
This is Silicon Valley, the beating heart of the technology industry, where so many world-changing applications are being designed. The people riding the BART, and assumedly making these reports, are the technorati. I fear that the racism evident in these reports reflects how the designers of the digital revolution view black people – we are not participants but rather problems to be solved.
But I’m also worried about the design of the app itself. “See a black person, call the police,” is exactly the opposite of the kind of app we need. Police are an escalating force, not on-call babysitters for those moments when life gets a little too real.
(Source: fusion.net)
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