21st Century Literacy. Why New Media Literacy Is Vital for Quality Journalism. On June 17, 2009, Mashable made a mistake.
In a report about the volume of Twitter activity surrounding the #IranElection movement, we accidentally used a "b" instead of an "m," inflating the number of total tweets one thousand-fold. This, on its own, is not spectacular. Though we certainly try to avoid it, every organization makes mistakes like this. The great thing about the web is that we were able to fix the error within minutes of the article going out. "Billion" became "million," our readers had the correct information. 10 Practical Uses For Psychological Research in Everyday Life. People love to give each other advice.
The web is full to bursting with all types of pseudo-psychological advice about life. The problem is, how much of this is based on real scientific evidence?