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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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alt="" height="84" width="62"></a>We all know
that the Internet contains an abundance of
misinformation. Librarians often spend a lot of
time explaining to their patrons that you can't
believe everything you read on the 'Net. But what
if you could attach critiques to news stories,
blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of
service, ballot initiatives, legislation and
regulations, software code, and more? Wouldn't
that improve the quality of information on the
Internet? That's the hypothesis behind <a
href="http://hypothes.is/">Hypothes.is</a>.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hypothesis_a_peer-review_layer_for_the_internet.php">Hypothes.is:
a peer-review layer for the whole Internet</a>
(ReadWriteWeb/Marshall Kirkpatrick) "It's a peer
review system to check, verify and critique
content all over the Web - and beyond.
'Improving the credibility of the information we
consume is humanity's grandest challenge,'
[project leader Dan] Whaley says. Topic experts
will be enlisted in addition to crowdsourcing, a
reputation system, browser plug-ins and APIs are
on the roadmap and all the data will be stored
at the Internet Archive."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2011/10/21/would-your-blog-stand-up-to-criticism-and-should-you-care/">Would
your blog stand up to criticism? Here comes
peer review</a> (Forbes/Haydn Shaughnessy)
"How do we, writers and readers, decide the
viewpoints that really make sense, that make a
contribution and somehow move us on? Through
Facebook likes? Really? And what do we make of
the obligation to play a bit part in the science
of the day, the world we live in, to make more
sense of it rather than add to the noise? If you
blog you should care about critique."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://skeptools.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/hypothesis-hypothes-is-crucial-tool-skeptics-peer-review-internet/">Hypothes.is
could become a crucial tool for skeptics</a>
(SkepTools/Tim Farley) "There is a huge amount
of misinformation out there. People believe in
pseudoscience, the paranormal and more. They
make bad decisions based on these beliefs that
have <a href="http://whatstheharm.net/">very
bad consequences</a>. The job of scientific
skepticism is to point out the errors in the
information underlying these belief systems, and
help people learn to find their way away from
them. But the platforms (web sites, blogs) on
which these ideas are espoused are often
biased."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/31/hypothes-is/">Hypothes.is:
a Kickstarter project to peer review the Web</a>
(TechCrunch/Erick Schonfeld) "People in the
system with the highest reputations can up-vote
the best comments and down-vote the worst ones.
It's like Quora or StackOverflow applied to the
entire Web. Web annotation services <a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/08/reframe-it-retreads-web-annotation-as-a-browser-add-on">never
seem to take hold</a> (see Third Voice,
Reframe It, Diigo, etc). But if you could
actually add a layer of comments that revealed
better information than on the underlying page,
it might have some appeal."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Standards
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">Hypothes.is
is based on a new draft standard for annotating
digital documents that is currently being
developed by the <a
href="http://openannotation.org/">Open
Annotation Collaboration</a>, a consortium that
includes the Internet Archive, the National
Information Standards Organization (NISO),
O'Reilly Books, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and
others.
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