Last week I read two (German) articles on the social web taking very different positions: Christian at crisscrossed.net published an article about “Das Netz der Ideen” (The Net of Ideas) in Internationale Politik, in which he talks about the positive learning effects the social web can have for development cooperation. The newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung published [...]
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Do you factcheck news stories that confirm your beliefs?
Environmental Graffiti posted an interesting story about a hoax written by Mark Twain in 1862 about the discovery of a petrified man. The story was widely copied and reprinted even though basic facts were evidently wrong.
Why am I sharing this? Besides being amusing, I think it teaches a valuable lesson about our predisposition to accept [...]
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