Nick Carbone published this link on techrhet just yesterday:

http://credibilitycommons.org

I noticed a new posting this morning, explaining the site's purpose:

The Credibility Commons is an experimental environment enabling individuals the opportunity to try out different approaches to improving access to credible information on the World Wide Web. Tools will be provided to researchers as well as the public, allowing them to try out search strategies, collections and other approaches to improving access to credible information. The Commons can be viewed as a collaborative space in which to share ideas, data sets, results and innovations. This project is sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation who is deeply invested in improving access to credible information on the World Wide Web.

So I started to wonder: Did Nick's post lead to mini-slashot effect?Don't know if we can attribute an uptick in traffic entirely to Nick's techrhet post, but it's certainly an interesting graph to interpret:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=medium&compare_sites=&y=p&url=credibilitycommons.org/#top

None of this, however, really gets after the real reason to post the link -- that this is a fascinating project, one for which teachers and students of writing in electronic environments could help shape.