Followers of Herdict\u2019s progress may have noticed by now that our chosen icon is the sheep. \u201cWhat\u2019s up with the sheep?\u201d they might ask.<\/p>\n
\u201cHerdict\u201d is a portmanteau of \u201cherd\u201d and \u201cverdict\u201d \u2013 used to mean \u201cthe verdict of the herd.\u201d Since the goal of Herdict Network Health is to gain insight into what the world \u2013 that is, the herd \u2013 is experiencing in terms of web accessibility, we\u2019ve chosen to go with a sheep to represent you, the herd.<\/p>\n
Now, you might be thinking, \u201cWait a minute\u2026who are you calling a sheep?\u201d To many, the sheep is considered to be an unintelligent species content to simply run with the flock. On the contrary, sheep tend not to follow the herd when no natural predator is present.<\/p>\n
While considering web inaccessibility and online censorship as a predator might be a bit farfetched, when faced with it, it makes sense to join the herd. And the more folks who do so, the better the picture we are able to paint of the network.<\/p>\n
For example, if you, User A, is in Morocco and finds YouTube blocked, you will probably want to know if others are having the same problem. With Herdict, you can see \u2013 in real time – if others are reporting the same phenomenon, giving you a better sense of possible reasons of why the site is inaccessible.<\/p>\n
In other words, Herdict presents your<\/em> verdict, allowing you, the user, to take control of the process and try to determine what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n -Jillian C. York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Followers of Herdict\u2019s progress may have noticed by now that our chosen icon is the sheep. \u201cWhat\u2019s up with the sheep?\u201d they might ask. \u201cHerdict\u201d is a portmanteau of \u201cherd\u201d and \u201cverdict\u201d \u2013 used to mean \u201cthe verdict of the herd.\u201d Since the goal of Herdict Network Health is to gain insight into what the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2017,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LdGs-5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}