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Badke Chapter 5

Posted on May 23, 2012 by daniel607

Searching a book has become dreadful for students today in age. I know when I get a research paper the most annoying thing for me is finding a printed source. Like Badke, I also believe printed books will be rare … Continue reading →

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Badke Chapter 4

Posted on May 20, 2012 by daniel607

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 →

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Badke Chapters 6 & 7

Posted on May 20, 2012 by daniel607

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 →

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Future of Information

Posted on May 15, 2012 by daniel607

I believe in the future information will be more available. I believe search engines will keep more records on people and what you put in search engines. I see all books being obsolete and probably turned into more solid computer … Continue reading →

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Media and Production

Posted on April 27, 2012 by daniel607

The article Critical Thinking, Deviant Knowledge and The Alternative Press by Eland, and the two articles on zines give good insight on why these alternatives are a great source of information. Zines and the sources given by Eland are organizations … Continue reading →

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Edge and Robinson on Documentation

Posted on April 27, 2012 by daniel607

I did not really consider the importance of documentation until I read these articles. Edge stated that without documentation the next person taking her job position would have great trouble knowing how things work. This sunk in my head an … Continue reading →

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Process Documentation

Posted on April 23, 2012 by daniel607

The example of process documentation that I saw was a youtube video of artist Ron Ridgeway creating an art piece called “Accidental Deliberation” It is a piece made of the wheel imprint of a tractor  on dirt. It starts with him in the … Continue reading →

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Badke Chapter 2

Posted on March 12, 2012 by daniel607

Badke does a great job giving us tips on database searching. I had no clue about truncation and ill be using it from now on. He gives wonderful insight on when to use “and” or “or”. Nowadays we expect technology … Continue reading →

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Search Engines

Posted on March 11, 2012 by daniel607

The process that search engines go through sounds very complex. This is something people probably never think about even though most of us use search engines every day.

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Plagiarism

Posted on March 7, 2012 by daniel607

I find it ironic that the University’s president was guilty of plagiarizing, this must’ve been shocking to the faculty and students and set a horrible example. I don’t believe plagiarizing has such a big grey area like Isserman proposes. Although … Continue reading →

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