The Process Liberation Front - #sxswkeynotedisasterporn

Data is agnostic. Information is amoral. Pointing the narrative-free fire-hose at the digital citizens of the third world does nothing to empower them, and U.S. politics is proof that More News just means More Influence for the person with the craftiest narrative. Once the saturation point is reached, even valuable information is part of the problem: no one has the capacity to sift and filter, and we fall back into the embrace of our trusted interpreters.

Tweeted by Jeff Eaton, re-tweeted by John Albin.

In related news, Yelp is being sued by businesses accusing it of extorting them-- offering to hide or push down bad reviews if they advertise. Basic response is to claim they don't understand how this works, we have a [secret] complex algorithm.

PWGD / Visions Unite will let us be our own interpreters. Follow who we want (as i am with John Albin; maybe i'm following Eaton directly, i don't remember) but - as a separate way of filtering - add democratic filtering– "do you think this information is important enough to go to everyone in your group?" And, of course, the mechanism by which this is decided, and how visible a response or a review is, all will be simple and public. No secret algorithms.