What a great term...I think it applies to both the media and academic presentations as well as Wikipedia...like when some ill informed journalist talks about things like SL with all the inaccuracies and rumour or when someone who has never used SL for anything more than to replicate a boring ,non-participatory lecture in a replica of their RL lecture hall and comments in a presentation or paper on SL being a waste of time instead of their pedagogy being he item in question...perfect examples of collateeral misinformation to me. Lindy Lindy McKeown aka Decka Mah http://lindymckeown.com -- Urban Word of the Day posting follows -- Urban Word of the Day www.urbandictionary.com March 08, 2008: collateral misinformation http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=collateral+misinformation&def id=2903349 When someone alters a [Wikipedia] article to win a specific argument, anyone who reads the false article before the "error" is corrected suffers from collateral misinformation. _________________________________________________________ This mail sent using iTEL Webmail - www.itel.net