DamonHD - 1:14 pm on Jun 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hi,

The key is not to rely on any one source, particularly if the info you found is astonishing or suspicious (or expensive if wrong).

This caution applies just as well for dodging phishing and other con scams.

W has some excellent material in some places that I care about (deeply boring/narrow technical stuff which is not politically contentious or otherwise going to attract attack), but I do double-check. If nothing else, suggest to your friendly 9 year old that W is a source of hints and leads to follow up, and he needs to start working out how to judge who to trust, which is much harder than typing in a URL of course!

For all W's faults, including hubris, it does remarkably well for my purposes, even though I reject most of the Web 2.0 hype associated with it.

Rgds

Damon