From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 17:49:03 MDT
--- Adrian Tymes <wingcat@pacbell.net> wrote:
> --- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > This actually sounds like it might be the basis of a
> > very popular
> > website. Imagine a site dedicated to fact checking.
> > Even presenting
> > different facts *along with their subjective
> > contexts*.
>
> Imagine http://www.urbanlegends.com/ and sites like
> it.
> ^_-
Not quite what I had in mind. Urbanlegends.com works to dispel
misinformation. They certainly are not a one stop reference center on
almost anything.
>
> A common problem with the Web seems to be that, while
> there are many sites that are useful in this manner,
> one has to conceive of the idea that X would be useful
> before one can think to search to see if anyone is
> already doing X. Has anyone managed to find a
> workaround for this?
They once invented this thing called advertising...
=====
Mike Lorrey
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