What we need isn't algorithmic-free feeds. We need access to the nuts and bolts so that we can tune the feeds, i.e 'condense the iceberg', in ways that makes sense to us.
Nobel Laureate Herbert Simonʼs most famous line is this: "In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.”
Ever since I began my career as a technology reporter in 1999, news monitoring has been a crucial tool/method for me. Steven Johnson's post frames a couple of the challenges and solutions I still battle with and try to refine in a good way.
Not the least what he writes about algorithms in social media: The problem lies not with algorithms themselves, but rather with what they are designed to achieve. Without algorithms, we would be lost online - even a chronological feed relies on algorithmic sorting.
What we need isn't algorithmic-free feeds. We need access to the nuts and bolts so that we can tune the feeds, i.e "condense the iceberg", in ways that makes sense to us.