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The Dark Side of Digg
Continuing my adventures in un-gate-kept media - or Web sites, which unlike The New York Times, TV news, and in fact all traditional news media and networks, publish what users and participants, not editors, decree as important or newsworthy.
Wikipedia and Digg, as I've been writing and talking about for almost a year, are both shining examples of these new, participatory approaches. But like all things human, neither operation is perfect. Both are beset by online vandals, who enter false or otherwise ridiculous information on Wikipedia, and similar kinds of stories on Digg.
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