That said, despite curation’s advantages the two biggest content players of all — Google and Facebook — are pure algorithmic plays. Google News has always been algorithmically driven, but the more important tool for content is Google search itself, which uses the most valuable algorithm in the world to not only find content but to rank it as well. ... See more
Ben Thompson • Curation and Algorithms
1. Metrics and models around social media amplification and recommendation
Sriram Krishnan • Whimsical ideas for 2020 - Part 2
Algorithmic recommendations shape the vast majority of our experiences in digital spaces by considering our previous actions and selecting the pieces of content that will most suit our patterns of behavior. They are supposed to interpret and then show us what we want to see.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
