A New Day at Justice.gov [Announcing Obama's new DOJ Blog Squad]

doj,gov ^ | October 1, 2009 | By Tracy Russo, DOJ Blog Squad Czarina

[mojitojoe]

Picky, picky. It is technically a forum. Bloggers don't just hit blogs. The well documented Obama "blog" team hits them all. Blogs, forums, You Tube, news site comment sections. Call it what you want. I can assure you that there is no site higher on their list of priorities than FR. Close behind are probably You Tube video comments and Fox comments, due to the exposure they get there. One night I ran into one. Read the comments.

[mojitojoe]

Picky, picky. It is technically a forum. Bloggers don't just hit blogs. The well documented Obama "blog" team hits them all. Blogs, forums, You Tube, news site comment sections. Call it what you want. I can assure you that there is no site higher on their list of priorities than FR. Close behind are probably You Tube video comments and Fox comments, due to the exposure they get there. One night I ran into one. Read the comments.

[444Flyer]

We have more eyes than they do.:)

[Freedom2specul8]

The FR forum does have a subsection for bloggers. True statement.

[humblegunner]

That does NOT make FR a blog.

[Freedom2specul8]

Thankfully, that is so True...!

[humblegunner]

Cry to the Boss all you want.

FR is not a blog.

[444Flyer]

Liberals are the most rabid fascists aren't they? “Bush, Bush, Bush” all those years and here they are dumpster diving below anything they ever accused him of. Tsk Tsk Tsk...Mussolini would be proud.

[Freedom2specul8]

Aha, I didn’t say it did. ;-) I said “The FR forum does have...” ...gotcha!

[Freedom2specul8]

Why don’t they ever take their own words and stances and use them against themselves? We have breitbart and beck to do it for them though.

[mojitojoe]

Once again, show me where I said FR was a blog. Get a life dude.

[Sparko]

EXCELLENTE!

[Sparko]

LOL. That is one degree of separation between two rodents or whatever the heck that thing is on the left.

[jersey117]

That’s all obama and his people do — read blogs, watch cable news shows and listen to talk radio all day

[444Flyer]

I wonder if Rhambo is keeping a laptop down his pants these days. Isn't that what Sandy Burglar did?

[444Flyer]

For the Basement Boobs...the above is an ATTEMPT at humor. File THAT in your pants!

Now read your manual!!!

12/4/08

“Sunstein Analyzes Internet Sources”

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=525703

Cass R. Sunstein ’75, a recently appointed professor at Harvard Law School, discussed the poisonous spread of spurious information in a society that is growing ever more technological, and the ramifications of this on the press and the law, in a speech yesterday.

Sunstein, whose lecture was in honor of his recent appointment as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, surmised that in an information age when not all sources can be trusted, especially on the Internet, the public will begin “triangulating” its sources, not believing in any one, trusted source, but rather trying to identify the truth through the analysis of a number of outlets.

“Much more thinking needs to be done both on the empirical side and in terms of the appropriate legal response,” Sunstein said. “We can see that in the Internet era in particular, false rumors are not only a source for many people— anonymous and less so—of unjustified injury and cruelty, but also pose serious problems for economic prosperity and democratic self-government as well.”

Sunstein described the specific social and psychological tendencies to believe rumors that could affect the press and the spread of information.

He began with an investigation of the social and psychological factors that prompt individuals to engage in the spread of rumors, and how we, in groups, reinforce our own beliefs in false information.

Sunstein described three social psychological mechanisms that propagate the spread of false information and rumors: biased assumptions, an informational cascade, and the effects of social interaction on individual diversity in beliefs.

“There is an informational cascade,” Sunstein said. “What happens is that people observe the previous signals of people who believe or do something, and once the weight of the previous acts reaches a certain level, the people disregard their own private information.”

Within groups, Sunstein highlighted a set of behaviors people engage in that cause “the convergence of views and the penchant for extremism.” He cited a study that he conducted in Colorado Springs in which participants were asked, first individually, then in groups, their positions on climate change. In the results, he identified factors that lead to the rejection of individual beliefs, including individual concern for appearance, which often determines whether or not a person remains resolute in a group setting.

“With respect to certain factual statements, people want to be seen a certain way, and also to present themselves a certain way,” Sunstein said. “When people are told by others that their views are correct, they not only rate those others as more likeable and more confident, they rate themselves as more likeable and confident, too.”

[mojitojoe]

Cry to the boss? LOL. You are a GROUCH! PO

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[danamco]

Well, that is not news, we have had a number of these squads here for some time at work!!!

[STARWISE]

It’s the DOJ unblogging blogging section ... LOL.