Needing Credible Sources in the New Data World

Thursday, 09. 17. 2009  –  Category: Dial611

As I mentioned in my previous two articles on smartphones, more and more data is becoming easier to access wirelessly.  And while access to this information is great, it does come with some inherent dangers to our lifestyle.  But beyond just personal dangers, there already is and will continue to be a concern for credibility in this new data world.

Wave one of the digital credibility issue has come with the Internet and e-mail.  There was a tremendous amount of content suddenly available at our fingertips, with news and research that once took days or months to obtain now only a search away.  However, the credibility of the sources behind the content were suspicious at best, as anonymous opinions and flat out false content was mixed…

News Sites Have Bigger Problems Than Aggregators

Wednesday, 07. 29. 2009  –  Category: Enversa Companies

Journalism is in a state of crisis, as online content has become a more important gateway of information to news readers, and paper-based subscription services have declined. Those inside the media are understandably distraught over the loss of their primary business model and sources of revenue, and the blame game has begun to try to pin the decline of the financial fortunes of the Fourth Estate on a particular culprit. The most recent focus of venom is towards bloggers and aggregators of news, which link to news sites without generating their own content. Such websites are said to reap financial benefits from the money spent in supporting the expensive process of reporting, without providing any monetary backing of their own.

The argument put forth by news…