Information Law Possum (discontinued)

Interesting post on the Wired Blog Network about the website www.drabandabic.com. Some interesting aspects of that story:

a) It’s astonishing how quickly users create content (in casu: hoaxes) and how fast this gets noticed by large mainstream media (search for dragan dabic website on Google News). Karadzic was arrested no more than 40 hours ago.

b) Hoaxes can be uncovered very quickly by other users.

c) The use of the Whois Privacy Protection Service by the domain name registrant was useless: First, the whois entry still shows the date of the last update — July 22nd; second, the fact that the registrant used that service kind of reverses the burden of proof that the website isn’t a hoax.

d) It might have been profitable for the hoaxer to add Google ads to the website.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 9:39 am and is filed under media, peer production.