In Class Exercise
Part 1:
1. PBS.org: This site does have an RSS feed, it has 21 individual feeds and some of the stories covered deal with public affairs documentaries that don't shy away from complex stories or controversial issues, other stories offered are insider technology analysis and news from tech guru Robert X. Cringely, science documentaries that show the human story behind the science story and daily, in-depth news and analysis from the Web site of the News Hour with Jim Lehrer. This source sponsors three different blog sites which are ways in which you can create a blog. There is no link to an actual sponsored blog just sites where you can start one if you would like. This site does no require any sort of log in or registration to view the material. It also does not charge anything once you get to a certain point. The archives are free to view in their entirety.
2. ChicagoTribune.com: This site does have an RSS feed with 10 different feeds ranging from travel, opinion, letters to the editor,sports and entertainment. In the local news feed one of the stories headline is "Moussaoui Offers Final Diatribe in Court." This site does also sponsor four different blogs by individuals such as Eric Zorn and Steve Johnson. I was able to read one full story but when I looked in for a past article I was prompted to log in or register as a new user. When I visited bugmenot.com I was able to use one of their username and passwords in order log in and read the story. It worked! There is a way to upgrade to a subscriber advantage where you will have access to a number of perks but for the purpose of reading just one story the bugmenot user name and password worked just fine.
I found that the Chicago tribune site offered a lot of information at a small price. I think the bigger and "more powerful" the source the more you may have to do in order to access it. The RSS feed seems very prominent and I found it to be extremely useful. If I were searching for something it would be much easier to find it through that system.
Part 2:
When searching for Steven Colbert the qoutes helped narrow the search down a bit. When I switched the results to sort by funny stuff it ended up coming up as zero which surprised me. I thought there would be a lot about him that was related to comedy since that is what he does. The same thing happened when I switced the sorting to truthiness.When I changed the authority slider to a lot of authority there were far less results than there were on the any authority side. When I searched for blogs relating to my topic I used the word google first and found over 100,000 blogs were found. I tried to narrow my search by using the words google and privacy and found there to be just over 2,000 results. When I clicked the tag button and a number of related topics came up such as Yahoo, SEO, Internet, Adsense, Online Marketing, Search, and Microsoft. Clicking the blog finder link made the results increase by about 200 more blogs than before. I found a lot of blogs that talked about the issues some people have with google, such as the invasion of privacy and the battle between google and yahoo to be the “best” search engine. When I searched for www.blogcritics.org there were 12,439 results. The number of results seems to indicate that there are a lot of critics that are commenting on blogs today. When I searched for my blog there were no results that came up. This tells me that there is not anyone looking, linking or talking about my blog. When I used google to look for blogcritics there were 5,790,000 results. I think they may be different because of the authority slider. This tool was able to filter out the nonsense links that may not be helpful. I find blogrolls to be helpful because they allow you to find links to other blogs because they are organized into different topics. I also like how they are on the front page of sites.
1. PBS.org: This site does have an RSS feed, it has 21 individual feeds and some of the stories covered deal with public affairs documentaries that don't shy away from complex stories or controversial issues, other stories offered are insider technology analysis and news from tech guru Robert X. Cringely, science documentaries that show the human story behind the science story and daily, in-depth news and analysis from the Web site of the News Hour with Jim Lehrer. This source sponsors three different blog sites which are ways in which you can create a blog. There is no link to an actual sponsored blog just sites where you can start one if you would like. This site does no require any sort of log in or registration to view the material. It also does not charge anything once you get to a certain point. The archives are free to view in their entirety.
2. ChicagoTribune.com: This site does have an RSS feed with 10 different feeds ranging from travel, opinion, letters to the editor,sports and entertainment. In the local news feed one of the stories headline is "Moussaoui Offers Final Diatribe in Court." This site does also sponsor four different blogs by individuals such as Eric Zorn and Steve Johnson. I was able to read one full story but when I looked in for a past article I was prompted to log in or register as a new user. When I visited bugmenot.com I was able to use one of their username and passwords in order log in and read the story. It worked! There is a way to upgrade to a subscriber advantage where you will have access to a number of perks but for the purpose of reading just one story the bugmenot user name and password worked just fine.
I found that the Chicago tribune site offered a lot of information at a small price. I think the bigger and "more powerful" the source the more you may have to do in order to access it. The RSS feed seems very prominent and I found it to be extremely useful. If I were searching for something it would be much easier to find it through that system.
Part 2:
When searching for Steven Colbert the qoutes helped narrow the search down a bit. When I switched the results to sort by funny stuff it ended up coming up as zero which surprised me. I thought there would be a lot about him that was related to comedy since that is what he does. The same thing happened when I switced the sorting to truthiness.When I changed the authority slider to a lot of authority there were far less results than there were on the any authority side. When I searched for blogs relating to my topic I used the word google first and found over 100,000 blogs were found. I tried to narrow my search by using the words google and privacy and found there to be just over 2,000 results. When I clicked the tag button and a number of related topics came up such as Yahoo, SEO, Internet, Adsense, Online Marketing, Search, and Microsoft. Clicking the blog finder link made the results increase by about 200 more blogs than before. I found a lot of blogs that talked about the issues some people have with google, such as the invasion of privacy and the battle between google and yahoo to be the “best” search engine. When I searched for www.blogcritics.org there were 12,439 results. The number of results seems to indicate that there are a lot of critics that are commenting on blogs today. When I searched for my blog there were no results that came up. This tells me that there is not anyone looking, linking or talking about my blog. When I used google to look for blogcritics there were 5,790,000 results. I think they may be different because of the authority slider. This tool was able to filter out the nonsense links that may not be helpful. I find blogrolls to be helpful because they allow you to find links to other blogs because they are organized into different topics. I also like how they are on the front page of sites.
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