Help stop terrible legislation that would break the Internet

As I explained over on the Big Big Design site, on Wednesday 1/18/2012 I’ll be protesting the proposed PROTECT_IP act (AKA PIPA or “Protect Intellectual Property Act”) by blacking out my websites. You can protest too, by running the blackout on your site (there’s a WordPress plugin to make it easy) and by participating in …

Trusted sources

A 2007 study by the "Icon Kids & Youth" project showed that more than half of six to 19-year-olds trusted the user-created encyclopaedia blindly – yet reputable news sources like Spiegel.de were only trusted by 40 per cent. Hoax, Wiki-style: Internet encyclopaedia spoofs mock reality : Internet Technology Link via Brad King.