Well actually… it isn’t really broken - but it is getting close to going *snap*. We got 2 inches of sleet on Saturday night/Sunday morning, so I shoveled a bunch of that heavy junk, then we got a ton of snow and had to shovel again. Then I had to help get snow off of the roof. Oh yes, and did I mention the 7 inches of snow we got last night? Yeah…. my back can’t take any more of this for a few days - so it is time to crawl back into my little cave and get back to what matters more than being able to get out of the driveway - blogging!
Oh yeah, and pictures of the snow mounds are coming soon - it ain’t even winter yet the piles are already over 5.5 feet high!
Anyway… I’ll admit I really haven’t checked my RSS reader in over a week, so I am clueless as to what is going on in the blogosphere these days (chances are it is the same ol’ kill the RIAA/MPAA, global warming will kill us all, Microsoft is evil, Linux and Apple are great, etc). However, today I finally dusted off the RSS reader and opened it up and one Digg post popped up right away, “My ISP gave NBC my packet history, and they’re abusing it.”
Basically the post claims his ISP shared access data with NBC - who is abusing the data and trying to scare him for downloading 2 seconds of a movie.
Thankfully the Digg users are smart enough to realize the poster is either maliciously trying to make their ISP and NBC look bad, or that they are simply foolish. Regardless, the story got marked as inaccurate and all is well. This does make me a bit curious though, and it does bring up a common point of criticism of user-gen content - how do you know something is true? How do you know a post on your favorite blog is truthful? How do you know this chunk of news on Digg or Slashdot isn’t completely false?
Over the next one or two weeks this will be the topic of the posts. It isn’t going to be a formal blog series - but it will have a similar feel. I am hoping when all is said and done you begin to think twice before believing something you hear about online - or anywhere for that matter.
Even the smartest Internet users sometimes forget that anyone can post anything online - regardless of whether it is true or false.
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