Comments on: Stanford Web Credibility

Stanford Web Credibility

raaka — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 04:41:23 -0800

Stanford Web Credibility "Our goal is to understand what leads people to believe what they find on the Web. We hope this knowledge will enhance Web site design and promote future research on Web credibility." A project of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, who offer ten guidelines for a web site's credibility.

By: kozad

kozad — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 04:46:53 -0800

Interesting stuff. (No, I haven't read it all yet!) Do any of you know any sites which give guidelines for evaluating usefulness/accuracy of websites? I'm thinking of something aimed at students rather than web designers. My high school kids need something like that.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:22:50 -0800

the #ff0000 text in font size 7 is often a reliable indicator that the site may not be a reliable indicator. but seriously, why worry about it - newspapers have been around for years, spewing lies and innuendo and masquerading opinion as fact, and nobody is developing guidelines for the detection of that bullshit. every evening millions of americans sit down in front of the lie-o-vision for the 6 o'clock lies. is anyone teaching children how to filter that bullshit? at least the web, for the time being, is able to present the lies of the common man as easily as the lies of corporate media moguls and politicians. now, am i lying?

By: kozad

kozad — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:27:42 -0800

Yep, Q, good point. This morning's headline tells me that whether or not we go to war is a decision entirely up to Saddam. If the media is so "left-wing," how come the stories and headlines mostly sound like they were penned by Cheney and Ashcroft?

By: agentfresh

agentfresh — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:28:55 -0800

The "10 Tips" list should be subtitled: "Or How to make your Internet Scam or Hoax More Convincing." Does the phrase "Persuasive Technology" make anybody else think of "A Clockwork Orange," "Brazil" or "1984?" I bet they spend a fortune on toothpicks, Visine and rat food.

By: chandy72

chandy72 — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:24:48 -0800

I dunno, it seems like the "ten guidelines" is more of a "well, no sh!t, Sherlock" list than anything. like fodder to help a consultant get the door open. like a white paper on serach engine optimization that tells you that "all search engine function differently, but you should know about spiders..."

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:29:43 -0800

OT: Is the problem on my side, or is everybody receiving a ton of "502 BAD GATEWAY" errors as they travel the web today? That's what I get from two of the three links above.

By: putzface_dickman

putzface_dickman — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:52:55 -0800

Ya know, Timecude doesn't follow any of these guidelines, and yet I get so much more done now that I have 4 simultaneous days with each rotation of the Earth. I'm a little skeptical of these "Stanford" people. What is a "Stanford" supposed to be anyway? Art Bell says they're a front for the the Illuminati.

By: putzface_dickman

putzface_dickman — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:53:59 -0800

Metafilter is so evil it doesn't want me to spell timecube right.

By: MidasMulligan

MidasMulligan — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:37:58 -0800

every evening millions of americans sit down in front of the lie-o-vision for the 6 o'clock lies. is anyone teaching children how to filter that bullshit? Oh yes, everyone should only read the Village Voice and go to indy news sites. They have the "truth", and of course are free from any bias or preconceived ideas. OT: Is the problem on my side, or is everybody receiving a ton of "502 BAD GATEWAY" errors as they travel the web today? Well, the internet backbone itself is fairly healthy today. Art Bell says they're a front for the the Illuminati. Yes, but Art Bell has "not the mental freedom to comprehend Nature's Higher Order Wisdom of the Harmonic Simultaneous 4-Day Time Cube Creation Principle within 1Earth Rotation." So he is evil and stupid.

By: holloway

holloway — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:57:57 -0800

Their first port of call

By: HTuttle

HTuttle — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 14:36:00 -0800

If you agree with it, then it's TRUE. If you disagree then it's FALSE. What's so hard about that?

By: mitchel

mitchel — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:04:25 -0800

If you agree with it, then it's TRUE. If you disagree then it's FALSE. What's so hard about that? Except, the statement above is neither true nor false.