In the second installment of our weekly video podcast on politics and technology, team members Mark Hardwick and Brett Bell discuss President Barack Obama imploring everyone to code (1:30) and Facebook’s new focus on news content (13:22).
Here are some links to the topics discussed this week:
Obama Says ‘Learn To Code’
http://digg.com/video/obama-calls-on-every-american-to-learn-code
http://allthingsd.com/20131208/hour-of-code-calls-on-students-to-program-computers/
http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/9/5191162/hour-of-code-computer-science-campaign-obama-cantor-support
Facebook Algorithm + You
http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/publishers-nervously-await-the-facebook-correction
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57614264-93/facebook-to-deliver-more-news-fewer-memes-in-news-feed/