The company's algorithms rank those links which generate the most traffic, and are therefore presumed to be more reliable, and they also assign a slightly higher qualitative ranking to more dependable sources — for instance, Times stories.
At social occasions, for instance, telling stories could even get competitive, as each listener jostled to add their own stamp to the conversation, and be part of the storytelling magic.
In every instance, the stories we have collected show that not only is the support and care that people receive much better than that provided in large institutional settings, it is significantly cheaper too.
For instance, the stories that Techcrunch has "digged" are at digg.com/users/techcrunch.
A simple Google search can pull up eye-opening material, such as, for instance, Forbes stories questioning Help Hospitalized Veterans of Winchester, Calif., and Coalition to Salute America's Heroes Foundation of Ossining, N.Y.
Specific allegations of bias — for instance, that stories about Glenn Beck (who wrote an interesting take on his own meeting with Facebook on this topic) were suppressed — are also addressed.
For instance, several stories about the iPhone rightly talked about it having a touchscreen, but nobody figured out that this was (A) true, and (B) one of the phone's defining features.
Chayes made me wander ever deeper into the recent history of Washington's wheeling and dealing, including, for instance, the story of the National Energy Policy Development Group, which Vice President Dick Cheney convened in the first weeks of George W. Bush's presidency.
For instance, a story last week about an injured Marine returning home to the state was mostly bordered by links to stories from the Daily Oklahoman about the war in Iraq.
Take, for instance, the story of Tony Schwartz.
