Week 4, we are getting going

Week four

Well I didn’t need to sit on the bus two hours each way to university.

It’s the Easter weekend.

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah,
zip-a-dee-ay,
My, oh, my, what a wonderful day.
Plenty of sunshine headin' my way,
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay!
- Lyrics: Ray Gilbert

Interesting Fact:
Four is the only number in the English language for which the number of letters in its name is equal to the number itself. This is also true in several other languages.

Reading up on the information provided in these lecture slides explained about the different complications when researching on the internet.
‘Make sure that when you are asked to conduct research, you understand and follow the steps in a logical and organized manner.’ (Week Four, Using the WWW)

Did you know the web was ‘developed by Tim Berners-Lee (a researcher at CERN) in 1989’ (Slides, Using the WWW). Actually he wasn’t the first one but he was the person credited for it. That is the same year the Little Mermaid was publicized by the Disney Studio (useless fact that you had to read).

I liked this information (it taught me something I didn’t know):
.com – commercial (of a commercial nature)
.org – organization (non-profit)
.net – network (when .com not available)
.gov – government
.edu - education
Knowing where the web page comes from will help you clarify if the text will be a good reference or not.

This will help me in my group project.

Web Browsers- Definition
According to http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/b/browser.html
‘A software application used to locate and display Web pages.’
I know this website isn’t an educational web page. I wouldn’t use it as a reference, but it’s a blog and I thought I had better say where I got the fact from.

There are also different Types of Web browsers.
§ Internet Explorer
§ Netscape Navigator
§ Firefox
At home I have Firefox, its supposed to be the ‘new’ improved Explorer web browser.

The slides for this week also had a page with all the ‘common interface shortcuts’.
For example;

Ctrl - C = Copy

Ctrl - P = Print

Ctrl - S = Save

Tutorial, glooming actual work.

http://www.haggishunt.scotsman.com/

1. This website should not be taken seriously, look at the cover. The animals look as if someone has crossed a platypus with a turtle (for a female) or a platypus and a possum (for a male).
2. Farquhar Farquharson, look at his description.
   - Born- Probably.
   - Sex- We profoundly hope not.
   - Physique- Muckle and hairy.
   These are a sure sign someone is playing a practical joke.
3. In Farquhar Farquharsons description it was stated that his hobby was to hunt haggis. Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish; it wouldn’t make sense to hunt a recipe.
4. One of the pages also has a Haggis Fact, Like the “TRex – which it not often compared – the haggis has eyes that react to movement”(Scotsman, 2008).
5. The URL for this site has .com for commercial use; an official country with an official government would have .gov. This indicates this is a commercial site not a government site.

http://www.molossia.org/

2. Come on, The Dead Dog War. ‘Siege was laid against our enemy, using our secret weapon, the ceaseless chatter of a hyperactive thirteen-year-old boy’ (Republic of Molossia, 2008).
3. If you click on the menu key- Special Links you will find a website http://www.geocities.com/micronations/ this website tells you how to create our own imaginary nation.
4. Also there is an icon entitling it is not a real city it is a intermicronational city. Another aspect was that I searched in Google the word intermicronational, it had no definitions, it only brought back the new updates on this site (every real word comes up with a definition on Google).
   
5. The URL ends with .org meaning organization (non-profit) when if it was a real nation it would have a .gov for a government.
6. I searched the name of the nation on Google; the only website available was this one. This means there is no other backing up information to support this nation’s authenticity.

The icon-

www.martinlutherking.org

The URL for this site pretty much tells you what to expect. As most URL’s are based on what is going to be on the site for example: www.myspace.com is MySpace and www.hotmail.com is Hotmail. This URL states Martin Luther King, so the site should theoretically give information about this famous black leader who helped dramatically with the American civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr..

My first impression of this site was that it was bias, as it only wanted to say that Martin Luther King Jr. was a terrible person, a traitor and a fraud.

After researching further and checking out accuracy of information I found that:

1. This site was constructed by Stormfront, in 2008. A ‘White Pride World Wide’ organization. If that isn’t a bias opinion I do not know what is.
2. After reading through this site I found spelling mistakes for example: “Ok first of I know this is according to wikpdeia ,but these number show some truth to them and iam shure there not much off........” (Stormfront, 2008).
3. There are references, but some information is being quoted by themselves, from their previous work (Storm, 1991).
4. When researching one of the references, a journal article, the only source I could find was from the website itself (Strom, n.d.). This article could not be found to be from any other online database and it had expired hyperlinks. This could jeopardize the authenticity of this article.
5. “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent his last night on Earth having sex with two women at the motel and physically beating and abusing a third”(Storm, n.d.). I could not find any evidence of this. So I am questioning the source.

After reviewing and researching I am unsure about the quality of information in this page. I have found other information saying that Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized many documents throughout his career, but it is hard to believe such a strong role model would do such a thing. This website truly changes the way people would look at Martin Luther King Jr.. I do not know if we should question his intentions, yes he may have plagiarized, but he created so much happiness and such a difference with the black civil rights in America. Martin Luther King Jr. deserves to keep his name and his honor.

Weekly readings:

‘A brief history of the internet’

Obtains information on the origins of the internet. The founder J.C.R. Lickliders, the first to actually write down the idea of networking in 1962 discussing his “Galactic Network” concept. This was the globally interconnected set of computers is which everyone could access data and programs from any site, which is similar to the internet we have today.

As history recalls internetting concepts, ARPANET (advanced research projects agency network) developed by DARPA was the world’s first operational packet switching network which then grew to become the internet. By the mid 1970s computer networks begun to come about wherever funding could be found for the purpose. BITNET and USENET were purpose built for schools and universities. The rapid growth of the internet is due to the open access to free documents.

‘History of the World-Wide-Web’

Samuel Morse in 1844 made the first step towards modern computers through the communication using electronic impulses, a special code that a sequences of pulses to letters of the alphabet. The second step was made my Charles Babbage who thought to build a “Difference Engine”. He made small errors in his calculations to make this so he never managed to build the engine although in 1991 the science museum in Kensington built a copy. In 1944 the first large scale automatic electromechanical calculator was built. These were some of the most important steps to how the internet started. This began the innovation that enabled communication and transmission of data between computers at different locations.

Alright that’s all the activities for this week, hope you can tune in and read me soon.

References:

Republic of Molossia (2008). Republic of Molossia Offical Website. Retrieved March 22, 2008, from

http://www.molossia.org/countryeng.html

Scotsman (2008). Haggis Hunt 2007/ 08. Scotsman.com. Retrieved March 22, 2008, from

http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/

Strom, K. A. (1991). King's Plagiarism: Imitation, Insecurity and Transformation. The Journal of American History, 87.

Storm, K. A. (n.d). Martin Luther King: A True Historical Examination. Retrieved May 08, 2008, from

www.martinlutherking.org

Storm, K. A. (2008). White Pride World Wide. Stormfront.org. Retrieved May 08, 2008, from Scotsman

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/white-numbers-population- seem-strong-493547.html?s=3d994d0f16aa3a34a56fa32d527890fb&

The Little Mermaid (2008). Answers.com: Entertainment. Retrieved May, 08, 2008, from

http://www.answers.com/topic/the-little-mermaid-1989-film?cat=entertainment