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The thing I love about blogging is that you can be a complete moron, but depending on a number of circumstances that you or anyone else have little or no control over - you're opinion might be the deciding factor or basis for opinion of someone else, or for that matter - quite a few people.

These are in fact scary times. (ranting follows) I think the sharing of information is good, don't get me wrong. Where I think folks are starting to get it wrong is their expectation for summarization. Nothing can quite beat the powers of discussion for hashing out opinions and making good decisions. Credibility, not so surprisingly, plays a key role that is often left out or forged online.

Why do we keep going back to the web seeking out information in this manner? Google and other resources used to be good at finding the end-all answers to all your questions. Now, that's not always true. We then turn to other forms of information collection (forums, wikis, message boards, etc.) only to find the same weaknesses (and in most cases, even weaker) exist.

I suggest that a high degree of certainty and accuracy isn't really possible anymore for any information found online, particularly considering how easy it is to manipulate data when motivated.

Time to start going back to the old fashioned way of finding things out - asking the real experts and validating that you are in fact talking to an expert. Hopefully this will be the Web 3.0 premise...

Gregsta'