Trust but verify

This was supposedly the mantra of Ronald Reagan. Not a bad one to apply to the Internet.

Everyone assumes that if something is on the Internet it is true. Far from it.

When someone wrote a book, there was at least a process that they had to go through, and this separated the serious person verses the joker. Today, anyone with a computer and a blog can set off a firestorm before anyone else can confirm or deny the accusation.

Rather than take things you see as fact, maybe the new mantra, at least as it relates to the Internet, is "look and research".

ChrisZ
5min

Ground rules

7. Nothing radical happens overnight.

8. No one person is to be congratulated or blamed. (similar to #2)

1 min