An Irish college student has proven that journalists are using Wikipedia as a primary - and indeed only - source for their stories, without doing any fact checking whatsoever. By inserting and then tracking a fake quote in the Wikipedia entry for French composer Maurice Jarre, who died in March, 22-year old Shane Fitzgerald determined that even such august media outlets as the BBC are susceptible to the "it's on Wikipedia, it must be true" fallacy.
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Articles on SocietyAn Irish college student has proven that journalists are using Wikipedia as a primary - and indeed only - source for their stories, without doing any fact checking whatsoever. By inserting and then tracking a fake quote in the Wikipedia entry for French composer Maurice Jarre, who died in March, 22-year old Shane Fitzgerald determined that even such august media outlets as the BBC are susceptible to the "it's on Wikipedia, it must be true" fallacy. That darling grapevine of the 21st century, Twitter, is being socially indicted and implicated in the increasing panic over the currently-anticipated swine flu epidemic. According to Evgeny Morozov, a fellow at the Open Society Institute, in an article published on the website of the Foreign Policy magazine, "having millions of people wrap up all their fears into 140 characters and blurt them out in the public might have some dangerous consequences." People are looking all over online for it - so here it is: the full text of President Obama's address (it's not a "State of the Union Address" as that officially happens after his first year in office, although for all intents and purposes it was a State of the Union - or, rather, a State of the Economy or State of the Economic Recovery address) that he gave on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 You may have heard a lot of talk about "the triple bottom line" lately, and you may be wondering just what the triple bottom line is. The triple bottom line (also expressed as TBL, 3BL, or "people, planet, profit") is a way of measuring an organization's social and enviromental impacts as well as its financial health. But what about a triple bottom line analysis of the Internet? The Postmaster General has said that the United States Postal Service may have to cut out one day's delivery a week as more and more people turn to the email inbox, instead of the post office, to deliver their correspondence. The Detroit News and Detroit Free press have conceded defeat to the Internet, and are cutting home delivery of the print version of their newspapers to just three days a week, and supplementing them by emailing a digital version to subscribers instead. "The dynamics of delivering information to audiences has changed forever due to technology," said David Hunke, publisher of the Detroit Free Press. "We're fighting for our survival." Esther Dyson has gone on record as comparing the choice to remain anonymous on the Internet to abortion. A new study conducted by the unlikely pair of Cosmo Girl and the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy has found that teens are "going sex crazy in cyberspace." Teens and cybersex are, apparently, a natural combination. So, why not encourage it as an alternative to in-person sex, which is so much riskier? Abraham K. Biggs, known as Candy Junkie on the BodyBuilding .com forums that he frequented, had threatened to commit suicide many times. However, last week, he really meant it. And so it was that Abraham Biggs downed an overdose of anti-depressent medications, and hundreds of people watched his webcam while he died. If you have ever thought "Gee, I wish that we could vote by Internet," well, your wish has just come true. This year, Internet voting has become a reality, as the very first voting by Internet system for a U.S. general election goes online. Unlike other electronic voting machines, the electronic voting machines used for Internet voting are basically just stripped-down, secured, laptops. Assuming it works as planned, it will be perfect for, for example, absentee voting. Regardless of one's politics, or political party affiliation, one can't deny that Barack Obama has done a pretty good job of using the Internet. Barack Obama's website and other Internet fund raising efforts have raised him more than $200 million - again, that's just Internet-raised donations! Now, amid heightening speculation that threatens to reach fever pitch, Obama is signing people up in droves to be able to receive a text message announcing his choice for his vice-presidential running mate, with his "First to Know" Internet campaign. Researchers in Germany have come out with a very interesting study about what your choice of email address says about you. We've already talked about what the domain of your email address says about you (such as do you send from aol.com, hotmail.com, yourowndomain.com, etc.), but this new study looks specifically at the username side of your email address. Such as, are you "onehottie@", "buttoneddown@", or "uptight@"? In fact, the title subject is honey.bunny77@hotmail.de (that is the German arm of Hotmail). While the world watched in fascination and horror as Russia and Georgia fought over the region of South Ossetia this week, it is alleged that Russia was also waging its war on another, less carefully-watched front: the Internet. If true, this marks the first time that a nation has publicly added to its arsenal of war strategies the taking out of an enemy's national computer infrastructure. The papers which underpinned the investigation into the anthrax scare and incidents of 2001 which included the death of five people, and which ultimately lead to the suicide of lead suspect Bruce Ivins last week, have not only been unsealed, but in record time they have been put on the Internet and made available to the public on the Department of Justice (DOJ) website. The social networking site FaceParty has deleted and banned all users over the age of 36, saying that a new law requires them to ban all sex offenders, and that people over the age of 36 are most likely to be sex offenders. Yeesh! Shocking news came to us this week, with the results of a Samsung Mobile survey showing that more than 6 out of 10 people asked for a preference stated that they'd text in their vote for the Presidential election this fall if the option were available to them. Here's your chance to tell a super delegate how to vote! Super delegates Lauren Wolfe and Awais Khaleel have posted a video on YouTube, asking for opinions on how they should vote. Once you've joined the almost 15,000 people who have watched the video you can leave them text or video feedback on YouTube, or you can find them on MySpace and Facebook, and leave your comment there. "Is water boarding torture?" is a question that many are asking these days. Now a live water board video has hit the Internet, purposely put on the worldwide web in order to allow people to witness someone being water boarded, and to decide for themselves. See the video of Kaj Larson getting waterboarded here. In what may be some very good news for parents, a survey of more than 1200 people has revealed that teenagers and twenty-somethings below the age of twenty-five would rather give up caffeine, chocolate, and even sex, before giving up their cell phone. A new survey released this week has found that an astonishing number of people would rather play online than even have sex. We are asked all the time "How can I make money on the Internet?" or "Where can I learn how to make money on the Internet?" In fact, we're asked often enough about how to make money online - and we have a vested enough interest in making sure that people do it appropriately, without spamming and following the rules and observing best practices - that we now offer this article. A new survey has found that Americans are - by their own admission - more addicted to email than ever. The email addiction manifests in some interesting ways, including that more than 25% of all Americans admit to taking their email to bed with them. A new Wikipedia scanning program written by Virgil Griffith has revealed that organizations who have entries in Wikipedia are editing their entries themselves, removing unflattering facts and commentary in order to show themselves in a more flattering light. This of course means that relying on a Wikipedia entry for unbiased fact reporting on a subject can be like relying on a press release from the organization themselves. Self-professed pedophile Jack McClellan ran his Seattle Tacoma Everett Girl Love website at stegl.org openly and, by all accounts from legal authorities, legally. You see, Jack McClellan has no criminal record, and as best as anyone can tell (and of course he claims) McClellan has never actually molested or illegally touched a minor. He just loves them. But his website - which we recreate here - was knocked offline by an outraged public. I read an article this week about "virtual rape". Yes, really. That would be virtual sexual assault on your virtual online character or persona. This is all coming out now because, I kid you not, someone from Second Life reported a virtual rape to the police in Brussels. And they are investigating it. Oh for pete's sake, give me a break! How tenous a grasp on reality do these people have? And how the heck can there be "forced online sexual activity"? Isn't that nearly an oxymoron? It used to be that the worst place a parent could think of for their daughter to meet a mate was the neighborhood bar. Or perhaps a sci-fi convention. Indeed, the last think that a parent wanted to imagine was their child picking someone up at a bar. But all that has changed with the advent of online dating. Now here's a big surprise - oh, wait, no it isn't - a recent study found that SMS (text messaging) has made it easier for people to lie. Do you have web rage? A new survey has found that disappointed online shoppers are experiencing "web rage" at poorly performing web merchant sites, and going back to in-person shopping. A recent study has shown that Internet gambling in the United States has doubled in the past year, and that many people who take part in Internet gambling have no idea that what they are doing is illegal. A study just released by Internet security device company SonicWALL reveals that an average of one in ten people who telecommuute do so in the nude. Millennials is the new term for the generation after Gen Y - the netcentric, uberconnected generation. Free ringtones or pay-for-play ringtones, either way, ringtone downloads have surpassed music downloads for many bands, and now account for more than 10% of the global music market! A new survey says that women have safer web surfing and Internet security habits than do men. Some question these findings, while others point out that neither is being particularly safe. A just-released study shows that nearly 90% of all teenagers are now online, and use email and other Internet programs on a regular basis. However, they also see email as something you use with old people, like parents and teachers. The method of choice for communication with friends is instant messenger. A new study released in the UK this week indicates that DVR (digital video recorders, such as the Tivo and the ReplayTV) owners fast forward through commercials. Well, duh. Apparently this is a surprise, although to whom, Aunty can't imagine. I mean, why wouldn't you fast ... A new report out this week indicates that a phenomenon known as digital bullying, or "cyber bullying" is on the rise. |
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