I'm a big advocate of online fiction. "Print must die," I say.

- Selling people books printed on paper disconnects reader and writer, both by preventing them from talking to each other, and by separating them into two discrete classes (published writers, and readers).
- Printing books require capital, which makes a few people gatekeepers, fashion-setters, dictators of what gets written.
- Online fiction can be animated, hyperlinked, multi-media, interactive.

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For those of you who haven’t heard about it yet, Facebook recently published a study they did on their users’ emotional states in 2012. They randomly generated two groups of about 700,000 users, then used an automated system to manipulate their news feeds. For one group, they culled news posts containing more positive language and smiling, happy faces; for another, they culled posts containing more negative language and unhappy faces. They then measured the users’ own news posts over the course

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I learned something interesting this evening, and I thought I'd share.

Some time ago, a few psychology professors decided to run an experiment to determine whether or not making people aware of bias would lessen in. They had two groups of people; they told one group that bias against women was rare, and told the other group that bias against women was common. Afterwards, they asked the two groups about their perceptions of women.

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(CNN) - Implicit bias is an uncomfortable subject for many people, especially those who believe they don't have any racial bias. But we all have it. We're just not always aware of it and how deeply rooted it can be.

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