If a kid is consuming media they are being manipulated by external algorithms. If they are creating it, they are developing their own algorithms. So limit and curate consumption and reward production.
That's a great point. But I think it's orthogonal to the one I was making in the post. Regardless of whether we encourage content creation over consumption, I think it's even more important for the service to have an underlying human identity associated with that content.
I noticed we create our own algorithms as well. I find myself reflexively typing in the same websites in the browser bar over and over to check what's there (e.g. the news). And I would consider that an algorithm in itself.
I highly recommend an rss reader. I used to use google reader, decamped to feedly when it died and more recently i moved to innoreader after feedly did weird stuff with pricing. I have heard theoldreader is good too.
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