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Stephen Downes

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This item, only a week old but already prescient, applies directly to the next item (about 43 Things). "The lack of transparency in the world of opinion-making is an ongoing scandal. What we have today is a system of opinion laundering, where powerful interests try to create public support for their side of issues without disclosing the hidden agendas." I heartily concur with this assessment, and observe that it applies to a wide range of domains, everything frompolitical activism to data gathering exercises to online marketing. And, one presumes, online learning.

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