UNESCO has decided to end its relations with Reporters Without Borders (RSF) due to a "repeated lack of ethics" and announced it would exclude possibities of further co-auspices in the future. The U.N. organization for Education, Science and Culture made the decision claiming that the French entity, RSF, tended towards sensationalism and tried to make itself a judge of developing nations.
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VHeadline Venezuela News: UNESCO to cut off its relations with Reporters Without Borders
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Dangers of remote Javascript
It only took three things to turn perl.com into porn.com
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It’s 2008 — do you know where your children are researching? : Good Morning Silicon Valley
* Assumption: They find their peers more credible as information sources than authority figures. Verdict: “On balance, we think this is a myth. Research in the specific context of the information resources that children prefer and value in a secondary school setting shows that teachers, relatives and textbooks are consistently valued above the Internet.”
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Just An Online Minute » Blog Archive » Just An Online Minute… Study: User Faith In Web Sites (But Not Engines) Up
Trust in search results is falling, says survey. Surprised? and what about the link to Google starting to produce its own content?
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Slashdot | Intel Employee Caught Running OLPC News Site
An anonymous reader noted yet another story about credibility and disclosure on-line. An OLPC news site highly critical of the project was run by an Intel employee who actually is working on a project that competes with the OLPC. Oh, and the site failed to disclose this pretty serious bit of bias. The article talks about the most extreme interpretation ("Intel secretly bankrolls blog that disses competitor") but even the less extreme version ("insider badmouths competitors anonymously at night") is pretty fishy. Just more reasons to never believe anything on-line, including me I guess.
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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Will work for virtual gold
Now, here's a great twist on the web sharecropping model: Get people to contribute valuable information to your business, and then pay them with fake money. That's what Amazon's been doing with its Q&A site, Askville. When you successfully answer people's questions on the site, Amazon rewards you with "Quest Gold," a virtual currency that, as GigaOm reports, you'll be able to use later this year in Amazon's new online role-playing game, Questville:
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Daily EM : …random notes on technology, media, and society
YouTube breeding ground for anti-vaccination views “Our study shows that a significant amount of immunization content on YouTube contradicts the best scientific evidence at large. From a public health perspective, this is very concerning.”
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BBC/OU Open2.net - Reith 2002: A Question of Trust - O'Neill on trust
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