Akkam’s Razor

Someone posted the following poorly sourced and questionable article on Digg:

Make sure you check out the comments, to which I replied:

Dugg. And not for the original article, but for the comments and process…

Next time some knucklehead tells you that social networking and news (or digg, del.icio.us, wikipedia, and the hive-mind) are useless as sources, and that the blogosphere is full of unsubstatiated rumors can point to this thread and show that there is way more fact checking and community enforcement of truthiness than any of the broadcast or cable news networks, news bureaus, or newspapers.

If this was a story that the papers cared about, especially those news magazines (I'm looking at you ABCNEWS, with that internet's bad, m'kay, from last night), there would be breathless fear mongering and promos about people haxoring your interweb.

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