How to Use the Internet Wisely, for Your Health and Your Country's

Atlantic Monthly by Howard Rheingold | May. 13, 2012 (Opinion)

Use the following methods and tools to protect yourself from toxic bad info. Use them and then pass them along to others. Promote the notion that more info literacy is a practical answer to the growing info pollution. Be the change you want to see.

Although the Web undermines authority (by enabling anybody to publish), authority is still useful as one clue to credibility in a detective hunt that accounts for many other clues. Claims to authority, ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - May 13, 2012 - 3:52 PM PDT
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Sirajul Islam
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 by Sirajul Islam - May. 20, 2012

The Atlantic's (this) story on Howard Rheingold's recent book 'Net Smart: How to Thrive Online' published by MIT Press is the best so far I've read on it, and I think, it's better to say it a book review rather than an opinion piece. The editorial note is important, as well. Yes, it's the key 'I will not blindly trust information I find online'. I think, it's also important to note while we read a printed published piece. knowledge is what that can segregate what is an information and what is an opinion in the guise of an information.

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Because encouraging different into violation

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Fabrice Florin
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 by Fabrice Florin - May. 13, 2012
Fabrice posted this story.
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