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As this becomes more and more common, with average citizens beating mainstream media to the punch, it raises the question: how much do you believe what you read on Twitter? Do you believe it the first time you read it? After you've seen it pop up a few times? Only after the news has been confirmed by a mainstream media outlet? And would you stop believing something were true if it was never reported by a mainstream media outlet?  Read more >

Mashable recently reported on an interesting study done by the commenting mechanism, Disqus. Disqus discovered that "Commenters who use pseudonyms tend to offer better comments." Which opens up a new thread in the ongoing debate about using real names instead of aliases on the Internet. This is coming on the heels of Google+ also announcing that they're finally going to be allowing people to utilize a pseudonym provided it is an established alias and not a newly created one.  Read more >