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Filter Success: The End of Social Discourse

Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.05.2012 | Technology
Read More: Politics, Barack Obama, Shelly Palmer, Mitt Romney, Filters, Rachel Maddow, Bill O'Reilly, Election 2012, Elections 2012, Technology News
Shelly Palmer

Republican fact-checkers say that The Washington Post Fact Checker is wrong and that the plant did close in 2009 under President Obama's watch. What would an impartial view of the speech have thought? What did you think? Now, just for a second, put your politics aside.

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Personalizing eCommerce: The Evolution of Filters

Grace Nasri | Posted 04.30.2012 | Technology
Read More: Personalized Recommendations, Online Shopping, Filters, Ecommerce, Findthebest, Online Personal Assistant, Personalized eCommerce, Kevin O'connor, Assistme, Technology News
Grace Nasri

Despite the shift, web-based retailers have not been successful in personalizing the online shopping experience in the way that traditional retail has.

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The Failure of Filters -- Why We're Getting Dumber by the Hour

Gerald Sindell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Bertelsmann, Book Clubs, Scouts, Oprah, Filters, W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, Book Reviews, Finland, Oprah's Book Club, Lionel Trilling, Readers' Subscription, Stravinsky, Media News
Gerald Sindell

The expectation that most of the audience would rush out and purchase the book, as Oprah's audience does today, was not there. With a good book reviewer, you didn't need to do any page turning yourself.

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Michiko Kakutani Is Destroying the Fabric of American Culture

Gerald Sindell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Frank Bruni, Michiko Kakutani, Book Publishing, Tom Friedman, Book Reviews, Filters, New York Times, NY Times, Media News
Gerald Sindell

Turns out if you really want to get reviewed by the Times, it really helps if you are also employed by the Times.

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Life Cycle: Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em

Simran Sethi | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Pesticides, Smoking, Cigarettes, Filters, Environment, Green, Environmentalism, Tobacco Industry, Deforestation, Phillip Morris, Simran Sethi, Sarah Smarsh, Green News
Simran Sethi

Deforestation is the most direct environmental repercussion of the approximately ten gazillion cigarettes smoked in the world daily. Wood is used just about every step in production--to cure tobacco, to wrap the leaves with paper, to box them up with cardboard.

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