Comments on: A market for truth? http://www.mutopo.com/2008/11/03/a-market-for-truth/ Mass Collaboration Mon, 09 May 2011 19:07:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: mutopo http://www.mutopo.com/2008/11/03/a-market-for-truth/#comment-110 mutopo Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:13:29 +0000 http://mutopo.wordpress.com/?p=229#comment-110 Perspective is valuable just because it shows another view and this is something Daylife is pulling off on its topic pages - there is plenty for and against on the Obama page. Between mainstream sources and blogs you get quite a bit of breadth. Will have to check out Vantagepoint. Perspective is valuable just because it shows another view and this is something Daylife is pulling off on its topic pages – there is plenty for and against on the Obama page. Between mainstream sources and blogs you get quite a bit of breadth.

Will have to check out Vantagepoint.

]]> By: Jose Arocha http://www.mutopo.com/2008/11/03/a-market-for-truth/#comment-109 Jose Arocha Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:14:51 +0000 http://mutopo.wordpress.com/?p=229#comment-109 Nice, thoughtful post. Take 1: My daughter, 7, was telling me yesterday that she believed Obama would win. "Look around Papa!" - she would add. There were Obama campaign ads everwhere around Palo Alto. Well, a great teaching moment I thought. Her comment made my mind flash back to the 2004 referendum elections in Venezuela. Endless lines of voters against the reelection of the president voted that day around our neighborhood. The neighbors were convinced of the results until the reports came up at the end of the day - well, the end of the night really. Trust over the electoral system aside, our perspective of "the truth" was so partial that did not add up enough to be "the dominant"perspective. Funny enough, a neighbor was just arriving from Pennsylvania yesterday impressed by the presence of the McCain campaign around her hometown in rural PA. Tomorrow we will see which perspective is the dominant perspective. Take 2: Have you seen the movie vantagepoint? See the preview here: http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/vantagepoint/ Worth your while! What if you had a news experience that could emulate this? Collect the points of view (perspectives) of every user profile type around a particular event or story and create a "perspective dial" or "truth dial" on "perspectivized stories". Cheers, Jose Nice, thoughtful post.

Take 1:
My daughter, 7, was telling me yesterday that she believed Obama would win. “Look around Papa!” – she would add. There were Obama campaign ads everwhere around Palo Alto. Well, a great teaching moment I thought. Her comment made my mind flash back to the 2004 referendum elections in Venezuela. Endless lines of voters against the reelection of the president voted that day around our neighborhood. The neighbors were convinced of the results until the reports came up at the end of the day – well, the end of the night really. Trust over the electoral system aside, our perspective of “the truth” was so partial that did not add up enough to be “the dominant”perspective. Funny enough, a neighbor was just arriving from Pennsylvania yesterday impressed by the presence of the McCain campaign around her hometown in rural PA. Tomorrow we will see which perspective is the dominant perspective.

Take 2:
Have you seen the movie vantagepoint? See the preview here: http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/vantagepoint/ Worth your while!
What if you had a news experience that could emulate this? Collect the points of view (perspectives) of every user profile type around a particular event or story and create a “perspective dial” or “truth dial” on “perspectivized stories”.

Cheers,
Jose

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