Most any journalism professor, upon mention of Wikipedia, will immediately launch into a rant about how the massively collaborative online encyclopedia can't be trusted. It can, you see, be edited and altered by absolutely anyone at any moment.
But how much less trustworthy is the site for breaking news than the plethora of blogs and other online news sources?
In this talk, Jonathan Zittrain made proposes that the seemingly lost human kindness has blossomed on the internet. The talk starts with the basic infrastructure of the internet, all the way to the simple but brilliant ideas of information sharing, to explain the act of kindness of human. This differs from ratings on amazon in that it is proactive and conscious actions of internet users who give and pass on favors.