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The Art Institutes Best Teen Chef Competition, now in its 12th year, is an opportunity for high school seniors across North America interested in pursuing a culinary career to experience the excitement and discipline of the industry creativity, and earn a tuition scholarship.
Winning entrants will participate in a Local Cook-Off Competition at each participating Art Institute judged by professional chefs and Art Institute culinary faculty. Each participating Art Institute will award the title of the school's Best Teen Chef, who will earn a $4,000 tuition scholarship toward a culinary program at that school. Second place finishers at each school will earn a $1,000 tuition scholarship toward a culinary degree at that school. Local Cook-Off Competitions will be held on or around April 21, 2012.*
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"We are excited to add a versatile and experienced left-handed reliever to the bullpen," Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers said in a statement. "He's very familiar with our division and has been a workhorse for the last couple seasons, so we expect he can continue to do that for us."
Wheeler, 24, broke into the big leagues in 2012, appearing in 50 games for the Diamondbacks, hitting .239 with one home run and driving in 10 runs. Wheeler excelled at Triple-A Reno before his call-up, hitting .351 with 15 homers and 90 RBI.
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Archived Tee - 2011-09-28About the artist
Tell us about this design.
Dexter is an amazing show (especially season 4...Trinity Killer whatup!)....and one thing that stood out to me as a person who lived in South Florida for nearly four years, is how they managed to portray the the life style of the city of Miami. So I decided to create a design that represented the city and also every season of the show! I even added the greatest Key Lime Pie from season 3! :)
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I was born in Puerto Rico, but raised in the Bronx, NYC! :D
How did you get started designing t-shirts?
Well...I work for an apparel company, where we do designs for Licensed Sportswear, BUT...I started doing my own designs when the sideshow freaks over at my toy forum ... (http://sideshowcollectors.com/) kept on nagging me to do Star Wars shirts! lol It was so fun to do that i never looked back! :D
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Surprisingly, designing shirts sometimes can be an emotional rollercoaster! lol You'll deal with rejection, harsh critiques, finding out that someone already designed your ideas or even when a design doesn't come out the way you wanted it to.
My advice is to keep on doing designs if your having fun doing them! Don't let things like this stop you from creating! Yes...you will have some hard days...but whatevz, you'll get over it! lol Just keep on trucking! :D
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Working for The Jim Henson Company! Or becoming an Art Director somewhere! ^_^
What is your favorite thing about Scott Pilgrim?
This is a tricky question! lol
My favorite thing about Scott Pilgrim the character is how dramatic he is! lol
About Scott Pilgrim the comic...I love how all the character are written and how each have such distinct personalities! Also, I really love the art of Bryan Lee O'Malley.
As for the movie... The cinematography, special effects and the direction! I love Edgar Wright! He's amazing!
Oh and my favorite character is Wallace! lol
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I've always wanted to live in a two story apartment/loft in Manhattan over looking Central Park! I would definitely decorate and furnish it like something from an IKEA catalog.... Oh and I HAS to have a fireman pole so that I could slide down to the first floor! lol
Oceans vs. mountains: which would win the battle?
See this is also a very tricky question.
They're so many variables on how this battle can take place.
For example..if the battle is during a long period of time... then I would have to say the ocean because of all the erosion damage.
But if the battle is short and sweet.... well then I might have to say that the mountain would beat the ocean because of it's hard surface which acts like a defense mechanism.
And then theres the possibility that the ocean might be carrying a hurricane.... or maybe the mountain is actually a volcano.
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I guess...I'll go with the Ocean mainly because it covers about 71% of the Earth's surface...making it have a higher XP average than the Mountain. :)
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New Jersey voters are fans of their Republican governor, Chris Christie, but they're not as keen on the idea of the state's outspoken chief potentially running for president in 2016, a new survey indicates.
The Quinnipiac University poll also shows that the governor's weight is of little concern to Garden State voters, despite the strong attention surrounding his size and his possible bid for the White House.
According the poll released Tuesday, 70% of voters approve of the job Christie is doing in office, another high number for the first-term governor who's up for re-election this year.
He comes out far ahead of his likely Democratic opponent, state Sen. Barbara Buono, by a margin of 60% to 25% in the typically-blue state. The governor has received wide acclaim for his handling of the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, which slammed into New Jersey's coast last fall. And 66% of voters, including 44% of Democrats, believe the GOP governor deserves re-election.
On the question of how Christie would fare as president, however, voters are more divided. Forty-one percent favor the idea, while 44% disagree that he would succeed in the White House. Less than half of voters--46%--would like to see their governor throw his hat in the 2016 ring, an election that would come in the middle of his second term, while 47% prefer that he stay in the state's capitol.
"New Jersey voters rate Gov. Christopher Christie's performance in Trenton at his now- routine astronomical level," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "Would he shine as brightly in Washington? New Jerseyans' views are mixed. Ditto on whether he should run for president in 2016."
Nationwide, GOP voters feel slightly different. Multiple recent polls indicate Christie would be either the leading choice or among the top picks for the Republican nomination for president in 2016.
Asked how New Jersey voters feel about having an overweight governor, nearly two-thirds--64%--are comfortable with overweight candidate, while 17% have some reservations and 4% are very uncomfortable, the poll shows. A tiny amount--4%--are enthusiastic about it.
The governor is known for poking fun at his own weight, though he's acknowledged that he needs to make some changes. At a press conference in February, the 50-year-old said that he and his doctors did have a plan for his health, and "whether it'll be successful or not, you'll all be able to notice."
"My doctor continues to warn me that my luck is going to run out relatively soon, so believe me it's something I'm very conscious of," he said.
For the poll, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,129 registered New Jersey voters by telephone from March 19 through 24, with a sampling error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.


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I was fortunate to have a pastor when I was in high school who took us through a very detailed, word by word study of Daniel and Revelations. This was in the 60's and at that time the current thought was that the European Common Market was the group of 10 countries that had to come together before the end times. Now, with current events, it is believed that the Baylonian empire was the one, and with the Muslims taking over each of these countries and secular articles talking about the one world government, I feel we are very close to the Rapture of the church. Watching the Republicans roll over and play dead on amnesty, terrorism and Obamacare just continues to appear we are headed very quickly in that direction.
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I caught my first handful of proper open waves yesterday. Was a bit rusty for the first hour so got up to speed on the white water, the next 2 hours were epic and I caught a decent amount of unbroken waves for the first time after much practice and reading useful tips from here.
This elation was quickly followed by a small wipe out where my board flew up in the air and smashed me on the head. After being dazed for a second I filled my hood with cold water and decided to do a bit more before lunch. On my way back out I saw the blood and thought maybe im done for a bit.
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The Filter Bubble
How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think
Eli Pariser - Author
In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for all users, and we entered a new era of personalization. With little notice or fanfare, our online experience is changing, as the websites we visit are increasingly tailoring themselves to us. In this engaging and visionary book, MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser lays bare the personalization that is already taking place on every major website, from Facebook to AOL to ABC News. As Pariser reveals, this new trend is nothing short of an invisible revolution in how we consume information, one that will shape how we learn, what we know, and even how our democracy works. The race to collect as much personal data about us as possible, and to tailor our online experience accordingly, is now the defining battle for today's internet giants like Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft. Behind the scenes, a burgeoning industry of data companies is tracking our personal information to sell to advertisers, from our political leanings to the hiking boots we just browsed on Zappos. As a result, we will increasingly each live in our own, unique information universe—what Pariser calls "the filter bubble." We will receive mainly news that is pleasant, familiar and confirms our beliefs—and since these filters are invisible, we won't know what is being hidden from us. Our past interests will determine what we are exposed to in the future, leaving less room for the unexpected encounters that spark creativity, innovation and the democratic exchange of ideas. Drawing on interviews with both cyber-skeptics and cyber-optimists, from the co-founder of OK Cupid, an algorithmically-driven dating website, to one of the chief visionaries of U.S. information warfare, THE FILTER BUBBLE tells the story of how the Internet, a medium built around the open flow of ideas, is closing in on itself under the pressure of commerce and "monetization." It peeks behind the curtain at the server farms, algorithms, and geeky entrepreneurs that have given us this new reality, and investigates the consequences of corporate power in the digital age. THE FILTER BUBBLE reveals how personalization could undermine the internet's original purpose as an open platform for the spread of ideas, and leave us all in an isolated, echoing world. But it is not too late to change course. Pariser lays out a new vision for the web, one that embraces the benefits of technology without turning a blind eye to its negative consequences, and will ensure that the Internet lives up to its transformative promise. INTRODUCTION A squirrel dying in front of your house may be
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dying in Africa. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us. Few people noticed the post that appeared on Google's corporate blog on December 4, 2009. It didn't beg for attention—no sweeping pronouncements, no Silicon Valley hype, just a few paragraphs of text sandwiched between a weekly roundup of top search terms and an update about Google's finance software. Not everyone missed it. Search engine blogger Danny Sullivan pores over the items on Google's blog looking for clues about where the monolith is headed next, and to him, the post was a big deal. In fact, he wrote later that day, it was "the biggest change that has ever happened in search engines." For Danny, the headline said it all: "Personalized search for everyone." Starting that morning, Google would use fifty-seven signals— everything from where you were logging in from to what browser you were using to what you had searched for before— to make guesses about who you were and what kinds of sites you'd like. Even if you were logged out, it would customize its results, showing you the pages it predicted you were most likely to click on. Most of us assume that when we google a term, we all see the same results—the ones that the company's famous Page Rank algorithm suggests are the most authoritative based on other pages' links. But since December 2009, this is no longer true. Now you get the result that Google's algorithm suggests is best for you in particular—and someone else may see something entirely different. In other words, there is no standard Google anymore. It's not hard to see this difference in action. In the spring of 2010, while the remains of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig were spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, I asked two friends to search for the term "BP." They're pretty similar—educated white left-leaning women who live in the Northeast. But the results they saw were quite different. One of my friends saw investment information about BP. The other saw news. For one, the first page of results contained links about the oil spill; for the other, there was nothing about it except for a promotional ad from BP. Even the number of results returned by Google differed— about 180 million results for one friend and 139 million for the other. If the results were that different for these two progressive East Coast women, imagine how different they would be for my friends and, say, an elderly Republican in Texas (or, for that matter, a businessman in Japan). With Google personalized for everyone, the query "stem cells" might produce diametrically opposed results for scientists who support stem cell research and activists who oppose it. "Proof of climate change" might turn up different results for an environmental activist and an oil company executive. In polls, a huge majority of us assume search engines are unbiased. But that may be just because they're increasingly biased to share our own views. More and more, your computer monitor is a kind of one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click. Google's announcement marked the turning point of an important but nearly invisible revolution in how we consume information. You could say that on December 4, 2009, the era of personalization began. When I was growing up in rural Maine in the 1990s, a new Wired arrived at our farmhouse every month, full of stories about AOL and Apple and how hackers and technologists were changing the world. To my preteen self, it seemed clear that the Internet was going to democratize the world, connecting us with better information and the power to act on it. The California futurists and techno-optimists in those pages spoke with a clear-eyed certainty: an inevitable, irresistible revolution was just around the corner, one that would flatten society, unseat the elites, and usher in a kind of freewheeling global utopia. During college, I taught myself HTML and some rudimentary pieces of the languages PHP and SQL. I dabbled in building Web sites for friends and college projects. And when an e-mail referring people to a Web site I had started went viral after 9/11, I was suddenly put in touch with half a million people from 192 countries. To a twenty-year-old, it was an extraordinary experience—in a matter of days, I had ended up at the center of a small movement. It was also overwhelming. So I joined forces with another small civic-minded startup from Berkeley called MoveOn.org. The cofounders, Wes Boyd and Joan Blades, had built a software company that brought the world the Flying Toasters screen saver. Our lead programmer was a twenty-something libertarian named Patrick Kane; his consulting service, We Also Walk Dogs, was named after a sci-fi story. Carrie Olson, a veteran of the Flying Toaster days, managed operations. We all worked out of our homes. The work itself was mostly unglamorous—formatting and sending out e-mails, building Web pages. But it was exciting because we were sure the Internet had the potential to usher in a new era of transparency. The prospect that leaders could directly communicate, for free, with constituents could change everything. And the Internet gave constituents new power to aggregate their efforts and make their voices heard. When we looked at Washington, we saw a system clogged with gatekeepers and bureaucrats; the Internet had the potential to wash all of that away. When I joined MoveOn in 2001, we had about five hundred thousand U.S. members. Today, there are 5 million members—making it one of the largest advocacy groups in America, significantly larger than the NRA. Together, our members have given over $120 million in small donations to support causes we've identified together—health care for everyone, a green economy, and a flourishing democratic process, to name a few. For a time, it seemed that the Internet was going to entirely redemocratize society. Bloggers and citizen journalists would single-handedly rebuild the public media. Politicians would be able to run only with a broad base of support from small, everyday donors. Local governments would become more transparent and accountable to their citizens. And yet the era of civic connection I dreamed about hasn't come. Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead we're more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead we're being offered parallel but separate universes. My sense of unease crystallized when I noticed that my conservative friends had disappeared from my Facebook page. Politically, I lean to the left, but I like to hear what conservatives are thinking, and I've gone out of my way to befriend a few and add them as Facebook connections. I wanted to see what links they'd post, read their comments, and learn a bit from them. But their links never turned up in my Top News feed. Face- book was apparently doing the math and noticing that I was still clicking my progressive friends' links more than my conservative friends'—and links to the latest Lady Gaga videos more than either. So no conservative links for me. I started doing some research, trying to understand how Facebook was deciding what to show me and what to hide. As it turned out, Facebook wasn't alone. With little notice or fanfare, the digital world is fundamentally changing. What was once an anonymous medium where anyone could be anyone—where, in the words of the famous New Yorker cartoon, nobody knows you're a dog—is now a tool for soliciting and analyzing our personal data. According to one Wall Street Journal study, the top fifty Internet sites, from CNN to Yahoo to MSN, install an average of 64 data-laden cookies and personal tracking beacons each. Search for a word like "depression" on Dictionary.com, and the site installs up to 223 tracking cookies and beacons on your computer so that other Web sites can target you with antidepressants. Share an article about cooking on ABC News, and you may be chased around the Web by ads for Teflon-coated pots. Open—even for an instant—a page listing signs that your spouse may be cheating and prepare to be haunted with DNA paternity-test ads. The new Internet doesn't just know you're a dog; it knows your breed and wants to sell you a bowl of premium kibble. The race to know as much as possible about you has become the central battle of the era for Internet giants like Google, Face- book, Apple, and Microsoft. As Chris Palmer of the Electronic Frontier Foundation explained to me, "You're getting a free service, and the cost is information about you. And Google and Facebook translate that pretty directly into money." While Gmail and Facebook may be helpful, free tools, they are also extremely effective and voracious extraction engines into which we pour the most intimate details of our lives. Your smooth new iPhone knows exactly where you go, whom you call, what you read; with its built-in microphone, gyroscope, and GPS, it can tell whether you're walking or in a car or at a party. While Google has (so far) promised to keep your personal data to itself, other popular Web sites and apps—from the airfare site Kayak.com to the sharing widget AddThis—make no such guarantees. Behind the pages you visit, a massive new market for information about what you do online is growing, driven by low-profile but highly profitable personal data companies like BlueKai and Acxiom. Acxiom alone has accumulated an average of 1,500 pieces of data on each person on its database—which includes 96 percent of Americans—along with data about everything from their credit scores to whether they've bought medication for incontinence. And using lightning- fast protocols, any Web site—not just the Googles and Face- books of the world—can now participate in the fun. In the view of the "behavior market" vendors, every "click signal" you create is a commodity, and every move of your mouse can be auctioned off within microseconds to the highest commercial bidder. As a business strategy, the Internet giants' formula is simple: The more personally relevant their information offerings are, the more ads they can sell, and the more likely you are to buy the products they're offering. And the formula works. Amazon sells billions of dollars in merchandise by predicting what each customer is interested in and putting it in the front of the virtual store. Up to 60 percent of Netflix's rentals come from the personalized guesses it can make about each customer's movie preferences—and at this point, Netflix can predict how much you'll like a given movie within about half a star. Personalization is a core strategy for the top five sites on the Internet— Yahoo, Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Microsoft Live—as well as countless others. In the next three to five years, Facebook COO Sheryl Sand- berg told one group, the idea of a Web site that isn't customized to a particular user will seem quaint. Yahoo Vice President Tapan Bhat agrees: "The future of the web is about personalization . . . now the web is about 'me.' It's about weaving the web together in a way that is smart and personalized for the user." Google CEO Eric Schmidt enthuses that the "product I've always wanted to build" is Google code that will "guess what I'm trying to type." Google Instant, which guesses what you're searching for as you type and was rolled out in the fall of 2010, is just the start—Schmidt believes that what customers want is for Google to "tell them what they should be doing next." It would be one thing if all this customization was just about targeted advertising. But personalization isn't just shaping what we buy. For a quickly rising percentage of us, personalized news feeds like Facebook are becoming a primary news source—36 percent of Americans under thirty get their news through social networking sites. And Facebook's popularity is skyrocketing worldwide, with nearly a million more people joining each day. As founder Mark Zuckerberg likes to brag, Facebook may be the biggest source of news in the world (at least for some definitions of "news"). And personalization is shaping how information fl ows far beyond Facebook, as Web sites from Yahoo News to the New York Times–funded startup News.me cater their headlines to our particular interests and desires. It's influencing what videos we watch on YouTube and a dozen smaller competitors, and what blog posts we see. It's affecting whose e-mails we get, which potential mates we run into on OkCupid, and which restaurants are recommended to us on Yelp—which means that personalization could easily have a hand not only in who goes on a date with whom but in where they go and what they talk about. The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives. The basic code at the heart of the new Internet is pretty simple. The new generation of Internet filters looks at the things you seem to like—the actual things you've done, or the things people like you like—and tries to extrapolate. They are prediction engines, constantly creating and refining a theory of who you are and what you'll do and want next. Together, these engines create a unique universe of information for each of us—what I've come to call a filter bubble—which fundamentally alters the way we encounter ideas and information. Of course, to some extent we've always consumed media that appealed to our interests and avocations and ignored much of the rest. But the filter bubble introduces three dynamics we've never dealt with before. First, you're alone in it. A cable channel that caters to a narrow interest (say, golf ) has other viewers with whom you share a frame of reference. But you're the only person in your bubble. In an age when shared information is the bedrock of shared experience, the filter bubble is a centrifugal force, pulling us apart. Second, the filter bubble is invisible. Most viewers of conservative or liberal news sources know that they're going to a station curated to serve a particular political viewpoint. But Google's agenda is opaque. Google doesn't tell you who it thinks you are or why it's showing you the results you're seeing. You don't know if its assumptions about you are right or wrong—and you might not even know it's making assumptions about you in the first place. My friend who got more investment-oriented information about BP still has no idea why that was the case— she's not a stockbroker. Because you haven't chosen the criteria by which sites filter information in and out, it's easy to imagine that the information that comes through a filter bubble is unbiased, objective, true. But it's not. In fact, from within the bubble, it's nearly impossible to see how biased it is. Finally, you don't choose to enter the bubble. When you turn on Fox News or read The Nation, you're making a decision about what kind of filter to use to make sense of the world. It's an active process, and like putting on a pair of tinted glasses, you can guess how the editors' leaning shapes your perception. You don't make the same kind of choice with personalized fi lters. They come to you—and because they drive up profi ts for the Web sites that use them, they'll become harder and harder to avoid. Of course, there's a good reason why personalized filters have such a powerful allure. We are overwhelmed by a torrent of information: 900,000 blog posts, 50 million tweets, more than 60 million Facebook status updates, and 210 billion e-mails are sent off into the electronic ether every day. Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it'd take up about 5 billion gigabytes of storage space. Now we're creating that much data every two days. Even the pros are struggling to keep up. The National Security Agency, which copies a lot of the Internet traffic that flows through AT&T's main hub in San Francisco, is building two new stadium-size complexes in the Southwest to process all that data. The biggest problem they face is a lack of power: There literally isn't enough electricity on the grid to support that much computing. The NSA is asking Congress for funds to build new power plants. By 2014, they anticipate dealing with so much data they've invented new units of measurement just to describe it. Inevitably, this gives rise to what blogger and media analyst Steve Rubel calls the attention crash. As the cost of communicating over large distances and to large groups of people has plummeted, we're increasingly unable to attend to it all. Our focus flickers from text message to Web clip to e-mail. Scanning the ever-widening torrent for the precious bits that are actually important or even just relevant is itself a full-time job. So when personalized filters offer a hand, we're inclined to take it. In theory, anyway, they can help us find the information we need to know and see and hear, the stuff that really matters among the cat pictures and Viagra ads and treadmill-dancing music videos. Netflix helps you find the right movie to watch in its vast catalog of 140,000 flicks. The Genius function of iTunes calls new hits by your favorite band to your attention when they'd otherwise be lost. Ultimately, the proponents of personalization offer a vision of a custom-tailored world, every facet of which fits us perfectly. It's a cozy place, populated by our favorite people and things and ideas. If we never want to hear about reality TV (or a more serious issue like gun violence) again, we don't have to—and if we want to hear about every movement of Reese Witherspoon, we can. If we never click on the articles about cooking, or gadgets, or the world outside our country's borders, they simply fade away. We're never bored. We're never annoyed. Our media is a perfect reflection of our interests and desires. By definition, it's an appealing prospect—a return to a Ptolemaic universe in which the sun and everything else revolves around us. But it comes at a cost: Making everything more personal, we may lose some of the traits that made the Internet so appealing to begin with. When I began the research that led to the writing of this book, personalization seemed like a subtle, even inconsequential shift. But when I considered what it might mean for a whole society to be adjusted in this way, it started to look more important. Though I follow tech developments pretty closely, I realized there was a lot I didn't know: How did personalization work? What was driving it? Where was it headed? And most important, what will it do to us? How will it change our lives? In the process of trying to answer these questions, I've talked to sociologists and salespeople, software engineers and law professors. I interviewed one of the founders of OkCupid, an algorithmically driven dating Web site, and one of the chief visionaries of the U.S. information warfare bureau. I learned more than I ever wanted to know about the mechanics of online ad sales and search engines. I argued with cyberskeptics and cybervisionaries (and a few people who were both). Throughout my investigation, I was struck by the lengths one has to go to in order to fully see what personalization and filter bubbles do. When I interviewed Jonathan McPhie, Google's point man on search personalization, he suggested that it was nearly impossible to guess how the algorithms would shape the experience of any given user. There were simply too many variables and inputs to track. So while Google can look at overall clicks, it's much harder to say how it's working for any one person. I was also struck by the degree to which personalization is already upon us—not only on Facebook and Google, but on almost every major site on the Web. "I don't think the genie goes back in the bottle," Danny Sullivan told me. Though concerns about personalized media have been raised for a decade— legal scholar Cass Sunstein wrote a smart and provocative book on the topic in 2000—the theory is now rapidly becoming practice: Personalization is already much more a part of our daily experience than many of us realize. We can now begin to see how the filter bubble is actually working, where it's falling short, and what that means for our daily lives and our society. Every technology has an interface, Stanford law professor Ryan Calo told me, a place where you end and the technology begins. And when the technology's job is to show you the world, it ends up sitting between you and reality, like a camera lens. That's a powerful position, Calo says. "There are lots of ways for it to skew your perception of the world." And that's precisely what the filter bubble does. The filter bubble's costs are both personal and cultural. There are direct consequences for those of us who use personalized filters (and soon enough, most of us will, whether we realize it or not). And there are societal consequences, which emerge when masses of people begin to live a filter- bubbled life. One of the best ways to understand how filters shape our individual experience is to think in terms of our information diet. As sociologist danah boyd said in a speech at the 2009 Web 2.0 Expo: Our bodies are programmed to consume fat and sugars because they're rare in nature. . . . In the same way, we're biologically programmed to be attentive to things that stimulate: content that is gross, violent, or sexual and that gossip which is humiliating, embarrassing, or offensive. If we're not careful, we're going to develop the psychological equivalent of obesity. We'll find ourselves consuming content that is least beneficial for ourselves or society as a whole. Just as the factory farming system that produces and delivers our food shapes what we eat, the dynamics of our media shape what information we consume. Now we're quickly shifting toward a regimen chock-full of personally relevant information. And while that can be helpful, too much of a good thing can also cause real problems. Left to their own devices, personalization filters serve up a kind of invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas, amplifying our desire for things that are familiar and leaving us oblivious to the dangers lurking in the dark territory of the unknown. In the filter bubble, there's less room for the chance encounters that bring insight and learning. Creativity is often sparked by the collision of ideas from different disciplines and cultures. Combine an understanding of cooking and physics and you get the nonstick pan and the induction stovetop. But if Amazon thinks I'm interested in cookbooks, it's not very likely to show me books about metallurgy. It's not just serendipity that's at risk. By definition, a world constructed from the familiar is a world in which there's nothing to learn. If personalization is too acute, it could prevent us from coming into contact with the mind-blowing, preconception-shattering experiences and ideas that change how we think about the world and ourselves. And while the premise of personalization is that it provides you with a service, you're not the only person with a vested interest in your data. Researchers at the University of Minnesota recently discovered that women who are ovulating respond better to pitches for clingy clothes and suggested that marketers "strategically time" their online solicitations. With enough data, guessing this timing may be easier than you think. At best, if a company knows which articles you read or what mood you're in, it can serve up ads related to your interests. But at worst, it can make decisions on that basis that negatively affect your life. After you visit a page about Third World backpacking, an insurance company with access to your Web history might decide to increase your premium, law professor Jonathan Zittrain suggests. Parents who purchased EchoMetrix's Sentry software to track their kids online were outraged when they found that the company was then selling their kids' data to third-party marketing firms. Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life—much of which you might not trust friends with. These companies are getting better at drawing on this data to make decisions every day. But the trust we place in them to handle it with care is not always warranted, and when decisions are made on the basis of this data that affect you negatively, they're usually not revealed. Ultimately, the filter bubble can affect your ability to choose how you want to live. To be the author of your life, professor Yochai Benkler argues, you have to be aware of a diverse array of options and lifestyles. When you enter a filter bubble, you're letting the companies that construct it choose which options you're aware of. You may think you're the captain of your own destiny, but personalization can lead you down a road to a kind of informational determinism in which what you've clicked on in the past determines what you see next—a Web history you're doomed to repeat. You can get stuck in a static, ever- narrowing version of yourself—an endless you-loop. And there are broader consequences. In Bowling Alone, his bestselling book on the decline of civic life in America, Robert Putnam looked at the problem of the major decrease in "social capital"—the bonds of trust and allegiance that encourage people to do each other favors, work together to solve common problems, and collaborate. Putnam identified two kinds of social capital: There's the in-group-oriented "bonding" capital created when you attend a meeting of your college alumni, and then there's "bridging" capital, which is created at an event like a town meeting when people from lots of different backgrounds come together to meet each other. Bridging capital is potent: Build more of it, and you're more likely to be able to find that next job or an investor for your small business, because it allows you to tap into lots of different networks for help. Everybody expected the Internet to be a huge source of bridging capital. Writing at the height of the dot-com bubble, Tom Friedman declared that the Internet would "make us all next door neighbors." In fact, this idea was the core of his thesis in The Lexus and the Olive Tree: "The Internet is going to be like a huge vise that takes the globalization system . . . and keeps tightening and tightening that system around everyone, in ways that will only make the world smaller and smaller and faster and faster with each passing day." Friedman seemed to have in mind a kind of global village in which kids in Africa and executives in New York would build a community together. But that's not what's happening: Our virtual next-door neighbors look more and more like our real-world neighbors, and our real-world neighbors look more and more like us. We're getting a lot of bonding but very little bridging. And this is important because it's bridging that creates our sense of the "public"—the space where we address the problems that transcend our niches and narrow self- interests. We are predisposed to respond to a pretty narrow set of stimuli—if a piece of news is about sex, power, gossip, violence, celebrity, or humor, we are likely to read it first. This is the content that most easily makes it into the filter bubble. It's easy to push "Like" and increase the visibility of a friend's post about finishing a marathon or an instructional article about how to make onion soup. It's harder to push the "Like" button on an article titled, "Darfur sees bloodiest month in two years." In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues— the rising prison population, for example, or homelessness— are less likely to come to our attention at all. As a consumer, it's hard to argue with blotting out the irrelevant and unlikable. But what is good for consumers is not necessarily good for citizens. What I seem to like may not be what I actually want, let alone what I need to know to be an informed member of my community or country. "It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest," technology journalist Clive Thompson told me. "In a complex world, almost everything affects you—that closes the loop on pecuniary self-interest." Cultural critic Lee Siegel puts it a different way: "Customers are always right, but people aren't." The structure of our media affects the character of our society. The printed word is conducive to democratic argument in a way that laboriously copied scrolls aren't. Television had a profound effect on political life in the twentieth century— from the Kennedy assassination to 9/11—and it's probably not a coincidence that a nation whose denizens spend thirty- six hours a week watching TV has less time for civic life. The era of personalization is here, and it's upending many of our predictions about what the Internet would do. The creators of the Internet envisioned something bigger and more important than a global system for sharing pictures of pets. The manifesto that helped launch the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the early nineties championed a "civilization of Mind in cyberspace"—a kind of worldwide metabrain. But personalized filters sever the synapses in that brain. Without knowing it, we may be giving ourselves a kind of global lobotomy instead. From megacities to nanotech, we're creating a global society whose complexity has passed the limits of individual comprehension. The problems we'll face in the next twenty years— energy shortages, terrorism, climate change, and disease—are enormous in scope. They're problems that we can only solve together. Early Internet enthusiasts like Web creator Tim Berners-Lee hoped it would be a new platform for tackling those problems. I believe it still can be—and as you read on, I'll explain how. But first we need to pull back the curtain—to understand the forces that are taking the Internet in its current, personalized direction. We need to lay bare the bugs in the code—and the coders—that brought personalization to us. If "code is law," as Larry Lessig famously declared, it's important to understand what the new lawmakers are trying to do. We need to understand what the programmers at Google and Face- book believe in. We need to understand the economic and social forces that are driving personalization, some of which are inevitable and some of which are not. And we need to understand what all this means for our politics, our culture, and our future. Without sitting down next to a friend, it's hard to tell how the version of Google or Yahoo News that you're seeing differs from anyone else's. But because the filter bubble distorts our perception of what's important, true, and real, it's critically important to render it visible. That is what this book seeks to do. "Well-timed…a powerful indictment of the current system." — THE WALL STREET JOURNAL "Eli Pariser is no enemy of the Internet. The 30-year-old online organizer is the former executive director and now board president of the online liberal political group MoveOn.org. But while Pariser understands the influence of the Internet, he also knows the power of online search engines and social networks to control exactly how we get information—for good and for ill." — TIME Magazine "[An] important new inquiry into the dangers of excessive personalization… entertaining… provocative." — THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Fascinating…a compelling deep-dive into the invisible algorithmic editing on the web, a world where we're being shown more of what algorithms think we want to see and less of what we should see." — ATLANTIC.COM "Pariser's vision of the Internet's near future is compelling." — THE BOSTON GLOBE "Chilling." — THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS What is a "Filter Bubble"? We're used to thinking of the Internet like an enormous library, with services like Google providing a universal map. But that's no longer really the case. Sites from Google and Facebook to Yahoo News and the New York Times are now increasingly personalized – based on your web history, they filter information to show you the stuff they think you want to see. That can be very different from what everyone else sees – or from what we need to see. Your filter bubble is this unique, personal universe of information created just for you by this array of personalizing filters. It's invisible and it's becoming more and more difficult to escape. I like the idea that websites might show me information relevant to my interests—it can be overwhelming how much information is available I already only watch TV shows and listen to radio programs that are known to have my same political leaning. What's so bad about this? It's true: We've always selected information sources that accord with our own views. But one of the creepy things about the filter bubble is that we're not really doing the selecting. When you turn on Fox News or MSNBC, you have a sense of what their editorial sensibility is: Fox isn't going to show many stories that portray Obama in a good light, and MSNBC isn't going to the ones that portray him badly. Personalized filters are a different story: You don't know who they think you are or on what basis they're showing you what they're showing. And as a result, you don't really have any sense of what's getting edited out – or, in fact, that things are being edited out at all. How does money fit into this picture? The rush to build the filter bubble is absolutely driven by commercial interests. It's becoming clearer and clearer that if you want to have lots of people use your website, you need to provide them with personally relevant information, and if you want to make the most money on ads, you need to provide them with relevant ads. This has triggered a personal information gold rush, in which the major companies – Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, and the like – are competing to create the most comprehensive portrait of each of us to drive personalized products. There's also a whole "behavior market" opening up in which every action you take online – every mouse click, every form entry – can be sold as a commodity. What is the Internet hiding from me? As Google engineer Jonathan McPhie explained to me, it's different for every person – and in fact, even Google doesn't totally know how it plays out on an individual level. At an aggregate level, they can see that people are clicking more. But they can't predict how each individual's information environment is altered. In general, the things that are most likely to get edited out are the things you're least likely to click on. Sometimes, this can be a real service – if you never read articles about sports, why should a newspaper put a football story on your front page? But apply the same logic to, say, stories about foreign policy, and a problem starts to emerge. Some things, like homelessness or genocide, aren't highly clickable but are highly important. Which companies or Websites are personalizing like this? In one form or another, nearly every major website on the Internet is flirting with personalization. But the one that surprises people most is Google. If you and I Google the same thing at the same time, we may get very different results. Google tracks hundreds of "signals" about each of us – what kind of computer we're on, what we've searched for in the past, even how long it takes us to decide what to click on – and uses it to customize our results. When the result is that our favorite pizza parlor shows up first when we Google pizza, it's useful. But when the result is that we only see the information that is aligned with our religious or social or political beliefs, it's difficult to maintain perspective. Are any sites being transparent about their personalization? Some sites do better than others. Amazon, for example, is often quite transparent about the personalization it does: "We're showing you Brave New World because you bought 1984." But it's one thing to personalize products and another to personalize whole information flows, like Google and Facebook are doing. And very few users of those services are even marginally aware that this kind of filtering is at work. Does this issue of personalization impact my privacy or jeopardize my identity at all? Research psychologists have known for a while that the media you consume shapes your identity. So when the media you consume is also shaped by your identity, you can slip into a weird feedback loop. A lot of people see a simple version of this on Facebook: You idly click on an old classmate, Facebook reads that as a friendship, and pretty soon you're seeing every one of John or Sue's posts. Gone awry, personalization can create compulsive media – media targeted to appeal to your personal psychological weak spots. You can find yourself eating the equivalent of information junk food instead of having a more balanced information diet. You make it clear that while most Websites' user agreements say they won't share our personal information, they also maintain the right to change the rules at any time. Do you foresee sites changing those rules to profit from our online personas? They already have. Facebook, for example, is notorious for its bait-and-switch tactics when it comes to privacy. For a long time, what you "Liked" on Facebook was private, and the site promised to keep it that way. Then, overnight, they made that information public to the world, in order to make it easier for their advertisers to target specific subgroups. There's an irony in the fact that while Rolex needs to get Tom Cruise's permission to put his face on a billboard, it doesn't need to get my permission to advertise my endorsement to my friends on Facebook. We need laws that give people more rights in their personal data. Is there any way to avoid this personalization? What if I'm not logged into a site? Even if you're not logged into Google, for example, an engineer told me there are 57 signals that the site uses to figure out who you are: whether you're on a Mac or PC or iPad, where you're located when you're Googling, etc. And in the near future, it'll be possible to "fingerprint" unique devices, so that sites can tell which individual computer you're using. That's why erasing your browser cookies is at best a partial solution—it only partially limits the information available to personalizers. What we really need is for the companies that power the filter bubble to take responsibility for the immense power they now have – the power to determine what we see and don't see, what we know and don't know. We need them to make sure we continue to have access to public discourse and a view of the common good. A world based solely on things we "Like" is a very incomplete world. I'm optimistic that they can. It's worth remembering that newspapers weren't always informed by a sense of journalistic ethics. They existed for centuries without it. It was only when critics like Walter Lippman began to point out how important they were that the newspapers began to change. And while journalistic ethics aren't perfect, because of them we have been better informed over the last century. We need algorithmic ethics to guide us through the next. What are the business leaders at Google and Facebook and Yahoo saying about their responsibilities? To be honest, they're frustratingly coy. They tend to frame the trend in the passive tense: Google's Eric Schmidt recently said "It will be very hard for people to watch or consume something that has not in some sense been tailored for them," rather than "Google is making it very hard…" Mark Zuckerberg perfectly summed up the tension in personalization when he said "A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa." But he refuses to engage with what that means at a societal level – especially for the people in Africa. Your background is as a political organizer for the liberal Website MoveOn.org. How does that experience inform your book? I've always believed the Internet could connect us all together and help create a better, more democratic world. That's what excited me about MoveOn – here we were, connecting people directly with each other and with political leaders to create change. But that more democratic society has yet to emerge, and I think it's partly because while the Internet is very good at helping groups of people with like interests band together (like MoveOn), it's not so hot at introducing people to different people and ideas. Democracy requires discourse and personalization is making that more and more elusive. And that worries me, because we really need the Internet to live up to that connective promise. We need it to help us solve global problems like climate change, terrorism, or natural resource management which by their nature require massive coordination, and great wisdom and ingenuity. These problems can't be solved by a person or two – they require whole societies to participate. And that just won't happen if we're all isolated in a web of one. |
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Nicky Clarke 2000W AC DesiRED Dryer
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- 2000 Watt Power
- 3 Heat Settings
- 2 Speed Settings
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This 2000W Nicky Clarke AC DesiRED Dryer has 3 heat and 2 speed settings, along with an optical ionic function with an indicator light. This dryer also features a cool shot button to add the finishing touch to any style. For added convenience, this dryer has a removable air filter and a hanging loop.
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Manufacturer Warranty Period | 12 months |
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Power (W) | 2000 |
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Heat Settings | 3 |
Speed Settings | 2 |
Cord Length (m) | 2m |
Diffuser | N |
Compact | N |
Concentrator Nozzle | Y |
Cool Shot Button | Y |
Easy Clean Filter | Y |
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