Comments on: Wikipedia and the end of the tall travel story http://www.501places.com/2010/07/wikipedia-and-the-end-of-the-tall-travel-story/ Sharing the world with you Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:56:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Andy Jarosz http://www.501places.com/2010/07/wikipedia-and-the-end-of-the-tall-travel-story/#comment-9840 Andy Jarosz Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:57:01 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=3166#comment-9840 Thanks Ted and Rainbowsurfer. Both excellent points. There is a danger that lazy journalists can find stuff online (yes, on Wikipedia too) that is just wrong, and not bother to fact check. Telling a fireside story as Ted describes can be a wonderful thing. It's not the storyteller's fault that someone might take that story and pass it off as the truth. Laziness as you point out is the danger here. Thanks Ted and Rainbowsurfer. Both excellent points. There is a danger that lazy journalists can find stuff online (yes, on Wikipedia too) that is just wrong, and not bother to fact check. Telling a fireside story as Ted describes can be a wonderful thing. It’s not the storyteller’s fault that someone might take that story and pass it off as the truth. Laziness as you point out is the danger here.

]]> By: Rainbowsurfer http://www.501places.com/2010/07/wikipedia-and-the-end-of-the-tall-travel-story/#comment-9780 Rainbowsurfer Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:30:28 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=3166#comment-9780 Long live tall stories they're great as you say for after dinner fun. What's worrying is their ability to become 'fact' because of the web. What with our busy schedules, lazy journalism and diminishing resources to check facts, tall stories can get spread far and wide and eventually someone thinks they're a fact. Can Dan Brown please stand up. Andrew Wakefield with MMR 'research' please close the door behind you. Long live tall stories they’re great as you say for after dinner fun.

What’s worrying is their ability to become ‘fact’ because of the web. What with our busy schedules, lazy journalism and diminishing resources to check facts, tall stories can get spread far and wide and eventually someone thinks they’re a fact.

Can Dan Brown please stand up. Andrew Wakefield with MMR ‘research’ please close the door behind you.

]]> By: Ted Nelson http://www.501places.com/2010/07/wikipedia-and-the-end-of-the-tall-travel-story/#comment-9746 Ted Nelson Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:14:06 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=3166#comment-9746 I am a big fan of the storyteller listening to my Dad around the campfire for 30 years on various camping trips. I sometimes correct some of his stories, but others are better left in the way he remembers it even if not completely true. I am a big fan of the storyteller listening to my Dad around the campfire for 30 years on various camping trips. I sometimes correct some of his stories, but others are better left in the way he remembers it even if not completely true.

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