[BNM] Don't trust the internet, was: Burma

[Kelvin Newman]

I imagine most of you will already of heard about this but the 'revelations'
about which companies were editing their own and competitors enteries was
quite interesting.

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker


kelvin
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[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Martin Gordon
Sent: 02 October 2007 11:14
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Don't trust the internet, was: Burma

Related to this is a case I heard on the radio a while back. BBC radio 
did a short documentary on the rise and impact of Wikipedia and as part 
of this they interviewed the lead singer of the Waterboys who mentioned 
a problem he'd had in that the wikipedia page about him said that he had 
battled with a heroin habit and so he duly went and changed the entry. 
The next time he looked the erroneous fact was there again and he 
changed it again but during saving he was alerted to the fact that 
someone was changing it back. He went on his blog to write up the whole 
debacle and the user who had changed it got in touch [obviously a fan] 
and apologised but would not let him change the page unless he could 
include evidence in some citation to prove he had not had a habit.

What a strange world Wikipedia has opened up.

paul perrin wrote, amongst other things:
> However on a newmedia topic, I think the ease which people can be misled
by
> plausible looking websites is something that is relevant.
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> Paul
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