Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Mod 4 Evaluating the Web: Annotation

I have had to choose new search terms for this task as the search terms I previously chose were not applicable to this activity. My new search terms are Internet, behavior and Netiquette. Hopefully these new terms will provide me with a link to a site applicable to my needs.
The site I have been given is http://www.abacon.com/compsite/conversation/netiquette.html
Here is my annotation.

Internet Behavior and Ethics: Netiquette

This site is both a reference site for the subject of netiquette and an Advocacy site as it tends to portray this topic as a needed tool rather than an unbiased discussion on the pro's and cons of netiquette. I was unable to discover much about the author Daniel Anderson, but the publisher Allyn and Bacon are a leaders in the field of humanities and social studies publications for higher education. The content of this site is merely an outline of the topic the real information on this topic lies in the links to other relevant sites of which only three work out of the four located here.
I do not feel that this site has been maintained and updated regularly the last time any addition was made to this page was in 1999 and although the topic of netiquette is not likely to change much over the short term, maintenance would have repaired the broken links and possibly added some more. I didn't find many sites linked to this one only nine which conveys to me that this page although useful has not been widely recognised.

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