Do you want to know how to find gold and win a beauty contest?
08/01/09 15:56
This article got us talking as we tried to get up to speed after the Christmas blur. There are now so many competing sites which set out to give you advice and teach you stuff. On one site you can learn everything from how to pan for gold to how to kiss. Another site shows you how to make a USB mini-fridge and win a beauty pageant swimsuit competition. Or you can learn how to wield a samurai sword, and play guitar.
While the range of skills and learning is impressive, how can we know whether or not the advice and teachings are valuable? What quality assurances are there? Perhaps whether or not you find gold or actually win the beauty contest!
We certainly celebrate the idea that everyone in the community can help learning to happen, and we wrote extensively about this in our Community Connectedness paper.
What do you think? Is quality an issue or do we just learn from our mistakes, discard the USB mini-fridge that never worked, and go with the guitar lessons which seem to be improving our ability?
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