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The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You

Eli Pariser

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Raph Koster recommends it
In short, this book is about the fact that we have set up our digital world to lie to ourselves. Repeatedly. We have built it, step by step, to confirm our biases and to never show us anything that troubles our placidity.

on raphkoster.com · 19 Jan 2012 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.