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Amazing collection of data on the content of US television nightly news, showing prominence of different types of news. Site features annual reviews of coverage, trends from 1980s to present.
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Experiments with adding a new user to Facebook allow the author to extrapolate ten interesting insights about Facebook's Edgerank algorithm and the composition of Facebook news feeds.
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Wikileaks mirror taken down because upstream provider was concerned about DDoS. Story helps illuminate just how many actors have the capability of acting as intermediary censors.
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Zach Seward looks at the data trails he leaves from his online activities. Suggests that heavy users of social media tools are logging their online behavior much as personal trackers and diarists are logging their physical activity.