Ways to get out of the Facebook echo chamber
Overview
One of the revelations about the 2016 presidential elections is the “echo chamber” for Facebook users since Facebook provides its users more of what they like.
That means Facebook users are insulated from conflicting opinions.
And fake news and misleading ads are troublesome.
Auto-refresh news sites
Click on one of these links to display a web page that refreshes automatically (listed by frequency of auto-refresh):
- Space Station location over earth evening view
- Boston Herald -- 300 seconds
- Los Angeles Times -- 300 seconds
- ABC News -- 600 seconds
- Boston Globe -- 900 seconds
- New York Times -- 900 seconds
- Wall Street Journal -- 900 seconds
- CNN -- 1800 seconds
- Denver Post -- 1800 seconds
- Denver Rocky Mountain News -- 1800 seconds
- USA Today -- 1800 seconds
- Washington Post -- 1800 seconds
- Seattle Traffic map -- 240 seconds
BTW, a website is set to refresh itself by this HTML:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600; url=index.php">
Weather
From a list of 12 Weather APIs:
- Weather.gov (National Weather Service) forecast and temperature maps are static
- Weather Underground (wunderground.com) also has pictures
- Yahoo.com/news/weather is static
Traffic
- Seattle Traffic map -- 240 seconds
Static news
- news.google.com
- msn.com
- Flipboard has mobile apps
HTML5 web cams
These sites display constantly on feeds from web cams using HTML5 (rather than relying on a browser plug-in such as Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight):
- Panda cam, China
- Wind map USA (zoomable)
- Old Faithful in Montana, USA
- Abbey Road, London, England (made famous by the Beatles)
- Real Life cams (for that "lived in look")
- Elvis' Graceland
- Vatican City, Rome, Italy
- List of webcam lists
Adobe Flash
- Times Square, New York City (Adobe Flash)
Java
This uses Java which browsers now block because of security issues.