Comments on: Twitter Safe From Ads, Blogging Takes One On The Nose http://metarand.com/2008/04/16/twitter-safe-from-ads-blogging-takes-one-on-the-nose/ meta musings and digital curation on tech, innovation, gadgets, lifestyle and the media arena Tue, 15 May 2012 02:36:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kevin Bjorke http://metarand.com/2008/04/16/twitter-safe-from-ads-blogging-takes-one-on-the-nose/comment-page-1/#comment-1279 Kevin Bjorke Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:27:49 +0000 http://metarand.com/2008/04/16/twitter-safe-from-ads-blogging-takes-one-on-the-nose/#comment-1279 A downside of speed-over-veracity is that people will believe whatever they heard first and ignore everything they hear later, as they've already set up an erroneous mental framework (or think "they already know") Look how many Americans (and others) still believe Saddam was behind 9/11, or that, to use an Australian example, how many people think that Heath Ledger committed suicide. Truth is so dull. Give us scandal, and drag in the advertising revenue hits! A downside of speed-over-veracity is that people will believe whatever they heard first and ignore everything they hear later, as they’ve already set up an erroneous mental framework (or think “they already know”)

Look how many Americans (and others) still believe Saddam was behind 9/11, or that, to use an Australian example, how many people think that Heath Ledger committed suicide.

Truth is so dull. Give us scandal, and drag in the advertising revenue hits!

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