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Friday, September 19, 2008

Careful with that WWW, U-Gene


Thanks to Alan Watt for discussing and posting this HIGHLY interesting article from the BBC which quotes CERN & World Wide Web (666) WHITE KNIGHT Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Sir Tim told BBC News that there needed to be new systems that would give websites a label for trustworthiness once they had been proved reliable sources.

"On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable," he said. "A sort of conspiracy theory of sorts and which you can imagine spreading to thousands of people and being deeply damaging."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7613201.stm

Sounds wonderful, no? Accredited websites for those who follow the agenda...guess it might make knowing who's who a little easier though...not much room for synchromysticism...unless, ummm, hmmm?

2 comments:

Newspaceman said...

Trust no one Todd - except for yourself. Thats the way I see it.

cheer

realm said...

DTA my friend, DTA