Monthly Archives: May 2012

This chapter gives us many useful tools that we should put in our research arsenal. One of the major benefits of doing research in our time now is that we have so much of it at our disposal. Anything we … Continue reading →

When looking at all the different topics that fall under open source, I felt a little overwhelmed. I then decided to narrow down my search and I wound up finding the topic Open Source and ethics by adding a few … Continue reading →

It is important for people to know how to properly tag things. Being user generated allows flaws because some people aren’t careful enough to label them properly. I underestimated the importance of folksonomy and metadata. The more detailed the metadata … Continue reading →

This article spoke alot about the use of copyrighted material by educators for projects and as teaching aids. I can see how it can become an issue for some because it is their work being used but at the same … Continue reading →

Badke gives good databases and free academic search engines. I agree with his advice to try another search engine after using Google. Although Google is the biggest search engine , it doesn’t cover every website. Another search engine like AskJeeves … Continue reading →

Knowledge is power, but power corrupts people. Just like what Lord Acton had stated:”Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” People use knowledge and information like some sort of tools to … Continue reading →

Fister’s the devil in the details: Media representation of ritual abuse and evaluation of sources makes a good point about the reliability of sources of information in the media.  She gives examples of how books, newspapers and other media usually … Continue reading →

This video explains how the idea of copyrights was established, and the recent situation of the copyrights in the funny way. The main idea of copyrights is to protect the authors’ right until their death. However, the big company, like … Continue reading →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBOYwNF1Frw&feature=endscreen&NR=1 1 Pray 2 Dial 911 3 Stay as low as possible to prevent friction of smoke 4Make sure there is a wet towel cloth on each end of an exit door to prevent fire expansion 5 Open all windows … Continue reading →

i believe that search engines is very essential to us and is a very big part of the internet. it is a means of finding an easy way to look up for something. the issue with it is that many … Continue reading →