Thursday, November 04, 2004

Blogs, blogging. Post-election analysis picks blog exit polls apart. I agree with Prof. Rosen that people need to be able to triangulate to judge the likelihood of any given piece of information, from whatever source, being true. I think many of the multi-tasking generation, the under 25's, already live in the world of likelihood estimates, rather than the world Walter Cronkite truths.MercuryNews.com | 11/04/2004 | Election results humble bloggers: "It's so much harder to control information today, we have to stop putting our hopes in controlling it and start seeding people with the knowledge of how to use it,'' said Rosen, a professor at New York University."

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