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May 17, 2007
Proprietary journalism
Proprietary journalism: Ryan Block of Engadget goes mea culpa on yesterday's Apple hoax. The problem is that he doesn't release the source code to his journalism -- he doesn't cite his sources, doesn't show the chain-of-custody on the data he was releasing, and we readers can't check and recompile the story itself. All we have is whatever trust we already have in the Engadget brand. He's asking for our Belief... it's not the Scientific Method. You can test a piece of code by whether it works or not, but data... we need the source data to evaluate what we're reading. Anonymity works some places, but not here.
Posted by JohnDowdell at May 17, 2007 7:03 PM