About:Media — What You Think You Know About the Web Is Wrong

Tony Haile, Time, March 9, 2014 If you’re an average reader, I’ve got your attention for 15 seconds, so here goes: We are getting a lot wrong about the web these days. We confuse what people have clicked on for what they’ve read. We mistake sharing for reading. We race towards new trends like native […]

Knew The News new site version

During the last months, Knew The News was rebuild to offer improved user experience, better accessibility and easier gameplay. Check it out on http://www.knewthenews.com/! Redesign was made to further improve scalabilty also on small devices, and offers a more modern look. Find the new question creation dialog, restructured, simplified and well designed. If there is […]

About:Media — Content Economics: News

Felix Salmon, Reuters, February 11, 2014 For centuries, news has been based on a broadcasting paradigm: a small group of journalists creates a product — a self-contained news bundle — which is then consumed by a very large group of viewers or readers or listeners. Various different bundles competed for your attention: you might get […]

About:Media — How Twitter Knows When You’re Depressed

Sam Frizell, Time Magazine, January 27, 2014 With its 230 million regular users, Twitter has become such a broad stream of personal expression that researchers are beginning to use it as a tool to dig into public health problems. Believe it or not, a scientist out there might actually care about the sandwich you ate […]

About:Media — The Six Things That Make Stories Go Viral Will Amaze, and Maybe Infuriate, You

Maria Konnikova, The New Yorker, January 21, 2014 In 350 B.C., Aristotle was already wondering what could make content—in his case, a speech—persuasive and memorable, so that its ideas would pass from person to person. The answer, he argued, was three principles: ethos, pathos, and logos. Content should have an ethical appeal, an emotional appeal, […]

About:Media — Our wildest fantasy: if only the French ran America…

The Economist, Jan 18th 2014 THE citizens of the world’s most powerful country have recently been distracted by a piece of meaningless tittle-tattle. The current issue of People magazine has revealed what le tout Washington knew anyway: that Barack Obama has been having an affair with Jennifer Aniston. This intrusion took place despite the president’s […]

About:Media — 2014 Oscar Predictions: Who Will and Who Should Be Nominated

By Marlow Stern and Kevin Fallon, The Daily Beast, January 15, 2014 Will Joaquin Phoenix make it? What about the Coen brothers? The Daily Beast’s resident Oscarologists debate who will—and who should—be nominated for the Oscars. Predicting the Academy Awards nominations can be a fool’s task sometimes. Remember when Ben Affleck wasn’t nominated for directing […]

Prediction Markets — Will the economy crash in march?

By Minda Zetlin, inc.com, Jan 8, 2014 Somewhere between March and June of this year, look for a worldwide economic downturn that will cause huge losses in stock exchanges around the globe. That prediction comes from Gerald Celente, who heads the Trends Research Institute. For more than 25 years, Celente has been making predictions about […]

About:Media — Karl Rove’s Fearless Political Predictions for 2014

So what does my crystal ball say for 2014? Karl Rove’s Fearless Political Predictions for 2014: Will Obamas disapproval be higher than 53%? Karl Rove’s Fearless Political Predictions for 2014: Will Republicans keep the House? Karl Rove’s Fearless Political Predictions for 2014: How many Senate seats will the GOP have? Karl Rove’s Fearless Political Predictions […]

Knew The News, 3 Years Anniversary

3 Year Anniversary Contest The top 5 players on the December community leaderboard will be rewarded a special prize: An unique Knew The News mug. Have a go, play now! http://www.knewthenews.com/