Quality content is a hard sell. Sure, people get that content is important — but getting people to invest the time and resources needed to make content great isn’t easy. It’s not enough to tell decision makers you need quality content. In order to make the case for it, you have to demonstrate...
  In the course ‘Methodology for Urbanism’ we discuss why Wikipedia cannot be considered a reliable academic source. This is because Wikipedia is not “peer reviewed”. Peer reviewing means that to be accepted as authoritative, a text must be reviewed by a team of recognized special...
In the modern world, wide usage and the easy accessibility to computers and the internet has increased people’s dependency on technology. Computers and the internet have become the vital hub for people’s various needs. Therefore, acquiring the necessary skills and knowledge regarding computers a...
When you use most search engines, you're just scraping the surface of the World Wide Web. There's much more. What we commonly call the Web is really just the surface. Beneath that is a vast, mostly uncharted ocean called the Deep Web. By its very nature, the size of the Deep Web is difficult to ca...
Some kids are using computers or electronics before they can even talk in complete sentences. However, just because we start kids out ridiculously early on electronics, doesn’t mean they automatically grow up to know how to use the Internet properly. From early elementary age, students are expect...
ABSTRACT This article attempts to convey the joys and frustrations of skimming the Internet trying to find relevantinformation concerning an academic’s work as a scientist, a student or an instructor. A brief overview ofthe Internet and the “do’s and don’ts” for the neophyte as well for t...
Nowadays the Internet is a wide-open source for information, entertainment, and communication. Many people believe that anything and everything go in cyberspace. I believed that myself, until becoming more informed. Sometimes, in a quest for knowledge and entertainment Internet users cross over a hi...
Introduction Each day more and more government agencies, foundations, corporations and other grantmakers are adding information to the Internet. In addition, information on individuals' wealth is also readily available. Most of this information can be found by going directly to Web pages or to spec...
Jurors who do their own research on cases before them should face criminal prosecution, the Law Commission has said. The call comes after a number of jurors have been jailed for using the internet to supplement the evidence presented to them in court. It has been welcomed by the Attorney General, w...
Today, the internet use is more than ever before. In the last decade, there has been a considerable increase in the number of internet users who belong to different age groups, genders, cultures, and interests. Consequently, they use the internet for vastly different purposes. Easy accessibility to ...

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