Thursday, September 11, 2008

Activity 1!

4c.) There may be no limit number of tags that are available, but a few that came to my mind for the first tagging image are: "Grand Theft Auto parody video game Rockstar busytown."
6.) After searching through three websites, altavista.com, google.com, and yahoo.com I discovered differences and prefences amidst the three. The Google logo is the most beneficial and productive logo. It seperates itself from yahoo and altavista by removing the clutter and links that surround it, andmoves them to the top left of the screen. The least preffered website, AltaVista, takes a very nuetral stand. While Google remains simple, the yahoo homepage is a breeding ground for links, allowing for sites that you may never have seen, to come to light. Alta Vista, neutral as possible, possesses a mixture of clutter and emptiness to allow very a very uneasy feeling. My favorite website between the three is Google, and my least favorite is Alta vista.
13. There are many things to be wary of when dealing with the credibility of websites across the internet. In my years of inter-cyber travelspace travel, I've found a few key things to help keep me aware of the credibility of the sites I may be gazing upon. The first, and most important piece of advice would be, don't ever trust a site on the internet. Everything posted online has been created by somebody, so rather you don't have to believe everything you read on the internet. A second piece of advice, to validate the sites you believe are credible, would be to find facts, and search a multitude of sites in the same topic, to verify these facts across many channels. A third piece of advice, is stay away from peer-to-peer forums for facts. Sites that have no regulation on the information involved can lead you far away from the truth.

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