Friday, November 21, 2008
Week Eleven Muddiest Thought
Why were some peoples week one reading notes and muddiest thoughts not counted and others were?
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Reading Notes Twelve
Ok i dont know what the problem was this week but i spent more time trying to find the first article than it took me to read the other three articles. So if anybody reading this wants to give me a link so that i can read the blog article i would love that. I read through most of the reading notes of all the folks i follow and it looked like a pretty good article based on what everyone said about it. But i couldnt find it no matter how i googled it. If i get to read it before 3 on Friday i will amend this blog entry to reflect it.
The second article was about wikis and how they can be useful to libraries. It talked about how libraries can use wikis to create informational handouts and guides. It gave some brief info ion how to start your own wikia and also discussed the library program at ETSU. I found this cool since i used to live in Johnson City. The article expounded on how libraries can integrate infomation using wikis and futher improve the users experience.
The third article was about social tagging. I dont know that tagging is mandatory, but it seem to be generally helpful. We tagged our articles on citeulike and using that as a point of reference I can see how tagging can be used to help promote eduacation. By making tags for the articles, we can assist other people in finding our articles for educational needs.
Last we had to watch a video about wikipedia. Interesting that their goal is to get a copy of the online encyclopedia to everyone in the world...they may want to first consider how to get computers and Internet service to everyone if they want ot achieve that goal. I think it's very good for the main founding principal to be neutrality. Afterall an encyclopedia should be a source of unbiased information..if one wants to see opinionated articles they should subscribe to blogs and skip wikipedia. Wales does have some pretty cool software in place to keep an eye on things though.
The second article was about wikis and how they can be useful to libraries. It talked about how libraries can use wikis to create informational handouts and guides. It gave some brief info ion how to start your own wikia and also discussed the library program at ETSU. I found this cool since i used to live in Johnson City. The article expounded on how libraries can integrate infomation using wikis and futher improve the users experience.
The third article was about social tagging. I dont know that tagging is mandatory, but it seem to be generally helpful. We tagged our articles on citeulike and using that as a point of reference I can see how tagging can be used to help promote eduacation. By making tags for the articles, we can assist other people in finding our articles for educational needs.
Last we had to watch a video about wikipedia. Interesting that their goal is to get a copy of the online encyclopedia to everyone in the world...they may want to first consider how to get computers and Internet service to everyone if they want ot achieve that goal. I think it's very good for the main founding principal to be neutrality. Afterall an encyclopedia should be a source of unbiased information..if one wants to see opinionated articles they should subscribe to blogs and skip wikipedia. Wales does have some pretty cool software in place to keep an eye on things though.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Week Ten Muddiest Thought
Will there ever be on service that catalogues all the information on the internet and becomes like Google times 100? Just wondering if it's possible to put all of the Internets information into one search engine? Kind of like a master list of all things online.
Readin Notes Eleven
This weeks first article on web crawling was a little interesting. It helped simplify somewhat, the complicated process of crawling. Without crawling we wouldnt have giants like Google or Yahoo. Also it explained spamming a little and I found it interesting that spammers send one version ot its content to search sites and entirely different content to the user. Im very much against Internet regulation, but that is just plain wrong. This in turn made me realize just how very valuable my anti-spam software is.
The second article was about the Open Archives Initiative and its attempt to improve metadata harvesting. This one was really hard to continue reading...it had good information in it but was covered up by way too much technical language. It also discussed the Digital Library Federation and if you can oversome the boredom this article offers some good insight an potential help for conducting independent research.
The last article focused on the Deep Web. Ok first off, i was blown away by the key findings expressed in the article about deep web. If those things are accurate, we have no real concept of how much information is available to us on the Internet. And fully 95% of that info is public and free! I was astounded! The section about how search engines work made it a little easier to grasp why Google misses so much information. Imagine the monster Google could truly become if they began to penetrate the deep web and not just continue scraping through the shallows of the surface web! This article was one of the best ones I've read this semester for this class. I enjoyed all the statistics and tables and was continually shocked as I realized that how much material was out there that most people have no clue exists. This article like the last one offers some great direction for accomplishing research.
The second article was about the Open Archives Initiative and its attempt to improve metadata harvesting. This one was really hard to continue reading...it had good information in it but was covered up by way too much technical language. It also discussed the Digital Library Federation and if you can oversome the boredom this article offers some good insight an potential help for conducting independent research.
The last article focused on the Deep Web. Ok first off, i was blown away by the key findings expressed in the article about deep web. If those things are accurate, we have no real concept of how much information is available to us on the Internet. And fully 95% of that info is public and free! I was astounded! The section about how search engines work made it a little easier to grasp why Google misses so much information. Imagine the monster Google could truly become if they began to penetrate the deep web and not just continue scraping through the shallows of the surface web! This article was one of the best ones I've read this semester for this class. I enjoyed all the statistics and tables and was continually shocked as I realized that how much material was out there that most people have no clue exists. This article like the last one offers some great direction for accomplishing research.
Monday, November 10, 2008
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