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VHeadline Venezuela News: UNESCO to cut off its relations with Reporters Without Borders
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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.
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.”
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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A slim majority of all Web users, 51%, surveyed by the center, said that most or all of the information they find on search engines like Google is reliable — down from 61% in 2006. But other information on the Internet appears to be gaining in credibility and importance with the public.
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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It's only a blog. It's not pretending not to have a bias. It's a blog. They're all biassed.
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:
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.”
Reputation: where the personal and the participatory meet up
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How can I trust someone to tell the truth in a blog?
Does someone else’s rating reflect my own taste?
Do I want this person as part of my discussion group?
Will this computer help upload files over a peer-to-peer network if I
let it use my computer to download files?
BBC/OU Open2.net - Reith 2002: A Question of Trust - O'Neill on trust
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I had come to think that our new culture of accountability, which is promoted as the way to reduce untrustworthiness and to secure ever more perfect control of institutional and professional performance, was taking us in the wrong direction.
Wikipedia: What Is It Good For? - Mises Institute
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"Jimbo" — was a finance major at Auburn University when the Mises Institute's Mark Thornton suggested he read "The Use of Knowledge in Society," a now-famous essay written by Austro-libertarian economist and Nobel laureate Friedrich von Hayek. The essay argues that prices in the market represent a spontaneous order that results from the interaction of individuals with diverse wants, allowing them to cooperate to achieve complex goals. According to a June 2007 Reason magazine interview, this insight of Hayek's is what led Wales to found Wikipedia. The rather lofty vision that inspired Wales? "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
Wikipedia 2.0, with added trust
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In the new version, only edits made by a separate class of "trusted" users will be instantly implemented.
To earn this trusted status, users will have to show some commitment to Wikipedia, by making 30 edits in 30 days, say. Other users will have to wait until a trusted editor has given the article a brief look, enough to confirm that the edit is not vandalism, before their changes can be viewed by readers. -
It allows select groups of editors, probably associated with specific subject areas, to vote on whether an article should be flagged as high quality. Readers would still see the latest version of an article by default, but a link to a high-quality version, if it exists, would also be available.
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Slashdot | Wikipedia 2.0, Now With Trust?
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Add Sticky Note"The online encyclopedia is set to trial two systems aimed at boosting readers' confidence in its accuracy. Over the past few years, a series of measures aimed at reducing the threat of vandalism and boosting public confidence in Wikipedia have been developed. Last month a project designed independently of Wikipedia, called WikiScanner, allowed people to work out what the motivations behind certain entries might be by revealing which people or organisations the contributions were made by . Meanwhile the Wikimedia Foundation, the charity that oversees the online encyclopedia, now says it is poised to trial a host of new trust-based capabilities."
- so, will wikiscanner now work for those who really want an interested change to be trusted?
the workaround seems quite simple... - on 2007-09-23
- so, will wikiscanner now work for those who really want an interested change to be trusted?
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