ingenue

I like to think some ingenue in the 1920s called some rich guy "angel" and got him to fund a show and it went from there. I should Google it but I miss speculating on things...

They weren't web ingenues -- they'd been reading other author blogs for years. Why would their concern with the appearance of the written word change when that word was online?

She is not some ingenue who accidentally stumbled into the spotlight.

An ingenue to any field is easy to fool - an expert - not so much. In effect, the defence against fake anything is a comprehensive personal knowledge base on that subject, be it news, a celebrity or research.

Boingboing is presenting it as if Swartz was some wide-eyed ingenue that didn't realize that anyone would consider his downloading a problem.

Leverage Silicon Valley connections to pull in other really big fish, such as Kissinger, et al, who would be really, really embarrassed that they were so hoodwinked by an ingenue. Use that cognitive dissonance to raise more and more money, while having no technology whatsoever.

I'm tired of hearing a procession of Ira-Glass-cadence-imitating NPR ingenues with gee-golly-wow attitudes interviewing financial pros. Journalists serve as proxies for the reader/viewer/listener.