Oblique Strategies for Resisting Algorithms Online - Improvised Life
Elan Kiderman Ullendorff has a great knack for finding creative ways to find interesting stuff online that resist being force-fed whatever "the algorithm" decides you want to see. His newsletter ”Deep Sea Diving” facilitates deep and surprising discovery.
Our friend Jim Dillon alerted us to Deep Sea Diving, a newsletter of “wanderings to the hidden corners of the internet“: Elan Kiderman Ullendorff has a great knack for finding creative ways to find interesting stuff online. By “creative,” I mean that they resist being force-fed whatever “the algorithm” decides you want to see, and/or they find ways to address a reference site (like Google Maps) in random, playful ways. Look at a couple of the entries and you’ll see what I mean… We did, and fell through a number of refreshing rabbit holes. These are NOT the usual list of obvious strategies…
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