That's Incredible

So I think the best thing I got out of Mr. Nolan's presentation was how even official looking websites can contain massive amounts of polarizing, or sometimes just flat out wrong information. I was shocked, in something of a humorous way, when I visited the Martin Luther King Jr. webpage only to find that it was actually run by a group of radical segregationists. That, to me, was a learning experience about how untrustworthy trustworthy looking sites can be. I was quite impressed by his analysis of the credibility of many webpages, with one exception. I think Wikipedia is a more credible source than it is given credit for. Even in the example that Mr. Nolan gave about the attempt by Colbert to drastically change the elephants page seems to reinforce the idea that Wikipedia is never far from the unwavering eyes of the moderators. As he said himself, they locked the article to prevent people from adding false information to the page, an act which I think speaks volumes to the credit of the oft embattled web encyclopedia.