does new technology need old standards?
while we're busy adopting all this wonderful new technology, at some point, it might be a good idea to figure out how it can be made more reliable.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/twitter-spreads-scoops-and-falsehoods/
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/twitter-spreads-scoops-and-falsehoods/
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Comment by Ed Bice on April 18, 2009 at 12:50pm -
Mirette, thanks for posting this. Here is the conundrum in 140 characters or less:
"Blogging makes publishing easy, microblogging makes publishing really easy. Understandably, this is the golden age for inuendo, halcyon days half-truth"
Fortunately, there is a human drive to attend to and expose untruths (equally to challenge 'the truth'). I am certain that systems will evolve to address vetting mechanisms on the RTW (real time web).
Here is a description of a project we have been working on: http://blog.meedan.net/2009/04/10/swift-thinking/
from that: We, it seems, may have made it though the cold war only to lose our civilization to a catastrophic Twitter-driven journalistic nuclear winter, which has LOLw00ted meaning, truth, and the Boston Globe.
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