Next CredWeb meeting in 48 hours!

Dear member of the CredWeb Community Group,

The fourth in our series of Authentic Web Workshops is coming up 48 hours
after I click send on this email, (8 a.m. in California, 9 a.m. in my home
time zone in the mountains, 11 a.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. England, and 5 p.m. in
France.)

(I know this time isn't great for Japan/Australia. If anyone there would
like, I'd be happy to repeat my presentation and take questions at a time
that works better for you. Just let me know.)

The project going under the microscope for this meeting is trust.txt, which
happens to be my creation. Some of you have heard about trust.txt before,
but you'll still want to join us because we have a new feature... For the
first time in the history of the internet, there's a badge that can be
visible on a web page that can't be duplicated in a way that would
undermine trust. At least I can't imagine how it could be, but that's why
we're road testing it with this group. Many of you have seen other
well-intentioned efforts get misused, so I look forward to having you try
to poke holes in this.

Before then, I'll be doing some additional documentation in github and
elsewhere. I would have done that before, but my life got somewhat
swallowed by a different project.

I was the one behind the new Local Journalism Index
<https://muckrack.com/research/local-journalist-index>, which came out last
week. It got a ton of attention, which is great. It may not seem like the
number of journalists working in the country is related to a trustworthy
internet, but I think there's a direct correlation. The less local news
people have the more they need to fill the vacuum that's created by the
very human need to have a flow of information in. More journalists fill
that vacuum with more local news so it doesn't get filled with crap. So,
check it out if it is of interest to you, and after we're done with the
CredWeb meeting I'd be happy to stay after and answer any questions you may
have about that Index.

Thanks very much, and I look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday!

-Scott Yates
Founder
JournalList.net, caretaker of the trust.txt framework
202-742-6842
Chair of W3C Credibility Group <https://www.w3.org/community/credibility/>
Member IPTC <https://iptc.org/> and Rebuild Local News
<https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/>
Short Video Explanation of trust.txt <https://youtu.be/lunOBapQxpU>