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May 22, 2006
Bloggers' credulousness
Bloggers' credulousness: CBS News focuses on two memetic infections last week, where many bloggers believed something just 'cause they were told it was true. In the first, a report on Iran requiring people to wear different clothing to indicate their belief system was later in dispute; in the second, a report of a political indictment was not supported by the facts. In both cases, lots of bloggers went to town on something they could not test -- they were believers, not reporters. Related terms: blogifact; Salinger Syndrome; "fake but accurate". Lots of webpage vulnerabilities stem from a failure to validate inputs, and yer own brain seems a good place to start.... ;-)
Posted by JohnDowdell at May 22, 2006 02:03 PM
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Ed Bott caught another one from the weekend, a rumor on Microsoft's eventual pricing for Vista... more here.
Posted by: John Dowdell at May 22, 2006 03:33 PM
speaking of validating inputs, i'm surprised i never saw any mention of coldfusion's ability to validate inputs for a whole webapp with just a little code snippet in an application.cfm.. it's a real time saver when validating against sql injection attacks.
sorry for the digression!
Posted by: alessandro at May 22, 2006 05:19 PM
There is, of course, an important difference between the two stories. The one from Canada can be presumed to be a product of the U.S. military propaganda machine. We taxpayers spent millions of dollars promoting the false story... and while most honest bloggers have acknowledged that it's false, the New York Post has just picked up the story.
[jd sez: I think you're projecting your internal state upon the external world.]
Posted by: Larry at May 23, 2006 12:57 AM