Amid all the debt ceiling and default stories and all the gamesmanship between President Obama and the Republican leadership, one little news item may say a lot more about our country than how much we lower the deficit.
The Greek default swap story has not quite ended, though.
Over the next few days, Facebook will roll out a "Sort" option at the top of the news feed that lets users select to see Recent Stories First instead of the default Highlighted Stories.
White has argued that the government should stop perpetuating default "scare stories" and, indeed, should encourage borrowers to default when it's in their economic interest.
For years the feature has let users switch from the default Top Stories relevancy-sorted feed to a Most Recent feed with the latest updates at the top.
Facebook did away with the two-tabbed news feed because a significant portion of the user base never switched to the Most Recent feed from the default Top Stories.
What about the dangers of higher default risk (see story, p. 70)?
But the open camera, Stories default and bigger previews all disappear with a quick tap or swipe.
It has a Digg-like user interface where users view stories, but by default you are only shown stories bookmarked by other users you've added as friends.
"When someone clicks a story, we default to loading the original Web page," Mr. Lammer explained in an e-mail.
