In the last week it has been used and abused by me. I have stored a whole lot of information like a chipmunk stores nuts--frantically. For some reason I have become obsessed that the information will dry up and I will never be able to access it again. Connotea is my friend, but before that I tried Diigo. In fact, I still have the little guy sitting at the top of my browser and I can't get rid of him.. Diigo was very bloated with profile photos, friends lists and personal information, the ability to highlight a page and put a sticky note on it. The list was endless and way too much for me. All I wanted was somewhere to store all of my info for the concepts assignment and the essay I am doing for Net12. Connotea was perfect and I deleted my account with Diigo.
Now I have the URL, the author, the institution, and a brief description of the site in my library on Connotea. When I need to retrieve the information required for referencing it will all be ready for me. I'm very excited by this.
It is two days after I started this post and I am now back to it to add the following information on the three sites I found most useful when searching.
- URL http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6545435.html
- AUTHOR Anna Adam and Helen Mowers
- INSTITUTION School Library Journal
- This site is the web version of the magazine that is circulated for schools, students and librarians. This particular article is of an instructional and educational variety about the use of search engines and provides links to several different ones. They favour Google, and explain how to search effectively using it but also include positives of Ask, Yahoo etc. The importance of the search engine is talked about and how it can be utilised to your best advantage. Heavily focused on kids and search engines that are most beneficial for them.
- URL http://informationr.net/ir/6-1/paper85.html
- AUTHOR Lee Ratzan
- INSTITUTION Making Sense of the Web: A Metaphorical Approach
- This paper is dedicated to the Internet Metaphor Project. A research into using metaphors to describe the Internet and how it affects us as users. It is focused on the way in which we find out how, what advanced and basic Internet users describe the Internet as. The real information is in the last section of the paper where Lee Ratzan concludes his findings and opens them up for discussion. The content overall is informative and useful. A clinical and fact driven paper for the Rutger's University that is more for those who like a numbers based survey type reference.
- URL http://smg.media.mit.edu/papers/BeingReal/BeingReal.html
- AUTHOR Judith S. Donith
- INSTITUTION Being Real MIT Media Lab
- An article written by Judith S. Donith that has been published. The title of the journal is "The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet". This is all about our identity on the Internet and how we chose to represent ourselves. Who we trust online and why, why and how can we believe what we are seeing and who we are talking to and what motivates individuals to create an identity different to their own. It also delves into AI and the ability for us as users to be fooled by programs posing as people. The author prompts us to consider if machines can think and impersonate human behaviours and even wonders if it matters whether they do or not. The social aspect of communication and the structure of the developing relationships between users is the conclusion and the paper.
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