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  1. Re:Confirmed by CharlyFoxtrot · · Score: 1 · on Apple Wants Patents For Crippling Cellphones

    You should pay more attention ;-) Here's a couple I've unearthed with very little digging : "Is the iPhone a Failure? Maybe!", "The iPhone is a Beta Product", "iPhony - Why Apple's new cell phone isn't really revolutionary", "Why the iPhone is a ripoff", "THE LONG VIEW: Why the iPhone will fail", "iPhone Fever: Not Everyone Buys the Hype", "Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone" and "Apple iPhone Doomed To Failure -- Windows Mobile 7 Plans For 2009 Leaked"

    It's easy to point and laugh now, except that all those people are still making predictions as analysts.

  2. Center for Citizen Media by j · · Score: 1 · on Ask an Expert About the Future of 'Citizen Journalism'

    Please note that Dan Gillmor now blogs at The Center for Citizen Media - not Bayosphere, which is now part of Backfence.

  3. Re:am I too cinical about this? by cgreuter · · Score: 1 · on Jimmy Wales Starting Campaign Wikis

    In a word, mostly propaganda.

    According to this article, the problem is that newspapers tailor their content to wealthier people and exclude the poor. Thus, the only news sources of interest to poor(er) people is TV, which is more effective at manipulation. Written news will, by its nature, appeal to human capacity for reason.

    (I'm not sure if I buy that last point, but it does seem to fit the facts.)

    Also, propaganda is not very effective if you can answer back to it. It's all about telling subtle lies and if people can call bullshit then and there, it loses a lot of its effectiveness.

    A well-run wiki would be, I think, mostly immune to propaganda. Maybe I'm overly optimistic here, but I think this might solve some problems if we can get lots of people from every strata of society to use it.