Penny, it's funny you mentioned that gossip page you encountered in college today in class. Right about the same time we received the instructions for our next project last week, Williams College campus was buzzing about this new site Juicy Campus. Like we discussed today in class, once anonymity is granted to a collaborative community, the credibility of information is lost. The vast majority of the site is complete garbage, but something interesting does occur in the most recent entries. A small group of unidentified people, in what seems to be an attempt to kill the gossip flow on the site, began posting things like historical quotes, encyclopedia entries, and a number of other items under misnomer titles, essentially flooding the site with disinformation. Certain people felt that Juicy Campus was bad for campus prestige, it seems, and in a collaborative effort killed the site chatter.
This was actually my original idea for our project, but someone, it seems, beat me to it so now I have to think of something else...
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