http://wordymouth.com/pr/cluetrain-rides-again/ A bloviation on the practice of public relations. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://wordymouth.com/pr/cluetrain-rides-again/comment-page-1/#comment-10057 Wanted: Highly Motivated Individual to Drink Beer and Talk to Buds Behind My Barn | wordymouth.com Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:47:35 +0000 http://wordymouth.com/2007/04/05/cluetrain-rides-again/#comment-10057 [...] in the past (see Publicity is Ruining Social Media, Get me, I’m Givin’ Out Wings or Cluetrain Rides Again (and misses some arrows).) Cheerleading to support an exciting new model diminishes its relevance. I would much rather see [...] [...] in the past (see Publicity is Ruining Social Media, Get me, I’m Givin’ Out Wings or Cluetrain Rides Again (and misses some arrows).) Cheerleading to support an exciting new model diminishes its relevance. I would much rather see [...]

]]> http://wordymouth.com/pr/cluetrain-rides-again/comment-page-1/#comment-5597 Misou Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:37:57 +0000 http://wordymouth.com/2007/04/05/cluetrain-rides-again/#comment-5597 What we need is a wake-up call about the quality of sites like Wikipedia - which calls itself an encyclopedia but is a rather unreliable political campaign instrument for anonymous editors with a hidden agenda. A wake-up call about the fact that misinformation on the Internet is more widespread than it seems and that "free information" can be very costly once you wrecked your health, finance or friendships using bogus information from so called social networking sites. I am not calling for authorities but the amount of data - useless as well as useful - on the Internet is way bigger than the capability of its users to correctly evaluate it. And that is why I think a discussion like the one Andrew Keen is stirring up is way overdue. What we need is a wake-up call about the quality of sites like Wikipedia – which calls itself an encyclopedia but is a rather unreliable political campaign instrument for anonymous editors with a hidden agenda. A wake-up call about the fact that misinformation on the Internet is more widespread than it seems and that “free information” can be very costly once you wrecked your health, finance or friendships using bogus information from so called social networking sites. I am not calling for authorities but the amount of data – useless as well as useful – on the Internet is way bigger than the capability of its users to correctly evaluate it. And that is why I think a discussion like the one Andrew Keen is stirring up is way overdue.

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