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12 Responses to “ Akahele is your Internet watchdog ”
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Christine Belin
Gentlemen,
I am very much looking forward to your upcoming articles.
Sincerely,
Christine Belin
ps. Hi Greg!
Barry Kort
On behalf of outraged academics everywhere, let me be the first to salute you on the launch of your new site.
I’m looking forward to following your research, and perhaps contributing an item of interest or two to your collection of essays and analyses.
Jonas Rand
I have an interest in this topic. Google has a large impact on the popularity of Web 2.0 sites, in the way they pump the rankings of blogs and Wikipedia. Serious discussion of Web 2.0 cannot be complete without a mention of Google’s irresponsibility in providing a blog service where people are free to be anonymous and post libel about anyone they want. I might end up writing for you! I appreciate your mission, to discuss this phenomenon, in which Wikipedia and Google are major participants. The ease of possibility in publishing lies, and convincing the public of them, fascinates me. It is all due to these greedy companies who have pumped so much money into this, without examining the ethical aspects of it. I am contemplating the writing and submission of an article for this site.
Jonas Rand
joeyyuan (at) cox.net
Kambiz Akhavan
Congratulations on the launch of Akahele. The more nonpartisan, well researched information available online the better. I’ve bookmarked the site for ongoing reference. Also, thank you very much for the link to ProCon.org. We really appreciate it.
Eric Barbour
Don’t forget my blog. Whenever I come across atrocities, Internet or otherwise, they get posted.
GlassBeadGame
A little friendly limit testing here. I notice all of the comment posters are using what at least appear to be real names. The site is clear that is has a certain disdain for pseudonyms. It is also clear that article writers must use IRL names. If this post goes through it will mean pseudonyms can at least post comments — something I believe is unclear. This will help clarify this question which might needlessly be deterring participation.
If this post does not go through/remain I will wait a while to give you chance for a good start-up and then raise this issue on WR. I hope this helps participation.
Good luck Greg et al.
GBG
Gregory Kohs
GlassBeadGame, of course pseudonymous and anonymous comments are welcome on Akahele.org, so long as they are on-topic, thoughtful, not spammy (or at least not too spammy), and don’t detract from our ability to carry out our corporate mission. We do moderate comments, but thus far, none have been rejected. We do believe that the published content we circulate as part of the actual anchor posts should be authored by real-name individuals. Perhaps one day, we will make an exception to this rule, but the content would have to be verifiable, and if it is accusatory in tone, then the accused deserves to know the identity of the accuser, we think.
I fixed a couple of typos in your comment. Hope you don’t mind!
Gregory Kohs
Additionally, the post above does (I thought) fairly clearly explain our policy on this:
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Akahele blog posts will welcome public comments from both individuals who name themselves and those who don’t. However, each director will have veto privilege to censor blog comments that are unsubstantiated, defamatory, unnecessarily commercial, or otherwise disruptive to our mission. The staff may also be contacted privately at the following e-mail address:
comments (at) akahele.org
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I am very satisfied that even on this inaugural post, we’ve garnered six outside comments already.
tarantino
This looks very promising.
Good luck Greg, Judd, Paul and Anthony.
edward buckner
A warm welcome to the net, and very best wishes.
I like the name – very clever. And the turtle.
Cheryl Kohs
Ok, even though Greg is my cousin, I’m not biased when I say IT’S ABOUT TIME someone did this. There’s so much crap on the internet that the more we can do to keep people honest, the better.
noloultedbon
(RUSSIAN) Благодарю!!!У Вас часто появляются очень интересные посты! Очень поднимаете мое настроение.
(ENGLISH) I thank you!!! You often have very interesting posts! Very much lift my mood.