http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2006/11/12/is-socially-driven-news-better/ ...politics, pictures, pugs and all that jazz Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:35:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2006/11/12/is-socially-driven-news-better/comment-page-1/#comment-13153 4 Alter Ego » Blogs - Vehicles of Propaganda or Truth Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:42:28 +0000 http://drumsnwhistles.com/2006/11/12/is-socially-driven-news-better/#comment-13153 [...] If a story shows up all over the blogoshere people do not bother to verify the facts. For an example, as pointed out on Odd time signatures, the Ted Haggard Story “the problem with the social networking model is that if someone repeats it often enough, rumor becomes fact. … I shudder to think of how many people really believe that Haggard was that close to him after viewing that particular and popular Digg headline” [...] [...] If a story shows up all over the blogoshere people do not bother to verify the facts. For an example, as pointed out on Odd time signatures, the Ted Haggard Story “the problem with the social networking model is that if someone repeats it often enough, rumor becomes fact. … I shudder to think of how many people really believe that Haggard was that close to him after viewing that particular and popular Digg headline” [...]

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