During this workshop, my group and I talked about possible interview questions for Howard Rhiengold and his social life, which was how can we tell good crap from bad crap, which of course means disinformation. They are unreliable sources of information. The root question for assessing the credibility of a web page remains, who is the author? Immediately after that, ask what are the author’s sources? A lack of sources is as suspicious as sources with known bias. Learn to use Easywhols or another Whols service to find out who owns a site if there is no author listed; use alexa.com to find out approximately how much traffic a website receives. Once you know a URL, try pasting it into one of the tools on network-tools.com. If the author provides a way to communicate or add comments, turn up the credibility meter. If the author responds to comments, read those responses. Is the site .gov or .edu? If so, increase your estimation of a site’s credibility. Site’s design – but don’t count on it. Professional design should not be seen as a certain indicator of accurate content, yet visibly amateurish design is sometimes a signal that the “Institute of Such-and-Such” might be a lone crackpot. Treat a site’s design not as validation of credibility but instead as one possible clue (along with grammatical errors, suspicious sources or lack thereof, and other people’s negative opinions of the site)