Real-time Q&A and Fact-checking
Erisk Schonfeld notes in Techcrunch that Answers.com has started answering questions on Twitter, if you direct your question to @AnswersDotCom. They join the ranks of @Answer, @Blurtit, @ChaCha, @Lazytweet, @twithelpme, @Vark and some others that I am sure I am overlooking. (Maybe I should ask one of those services if I left out anyone?) In any case … real-time answers are coming into their own.
In a potentially related article, Craig Newmark writes in the Huffington Post about Trust, Factchecking, and the News Media Landscape to Come. He notes the increase in fact-checking led by folks like … Continue Reading