Reflection

Day 6

I learnt the lecture about what is evaluating internet resources and what are the criteria to take note of when we evaluate the internet resources. Some of the criterias that i can take note of when evaluating are:-

Purpose: whether the website has stated clearly the aim and objectives of the website.
Coverage: what types of materials are covered in the website, does the website cover wide range of information, whether there are any time limitations for certain periods for the website and what audience does the website want to target at and whether the website satisfy the needs of the audience.
Accuracy: checking for any biasness and any errors like grammar, spelling and typograhy in the website.
Currency: whether the website's information are up-to-date, how frequent the updates are done and do the website do any maintainance.
Accessibility: is the speed connection of the website fast to retrieve information and check the reliability of the website and is the website stable.
Usability: whether the website is easy to use, user-friendly, navigating freely, search facilities functionality and got any support for the website.

I feel that all these criteria are helpful as it helped me in my evaluation of the internet resource.

Reflection

Day 5

Today, i continue on doing practical 4 and 5. I added comments on the search engine(Google), meta search engine(MetaCrawler) and subject directory(Google Directory) on what the results returned. I also compare and evaluate the 3 search facilities and from this i know that for search engine, the searching capability is high as it searched through its databases for results and the results are wide in range so i can have many choices. Meta search engine is searching through other search engines' databases, so the searching capability does not quite suit my needs for results. Subject directory is created and maintained by human professionals, so the links for websites are lesser than search engine and therefore the searching capability is not suitable for me as it is hard to get my results.

Overall, i choose search engine as it suits my needs for results searching and it is the most common used search facility nowadays.

Reflection

Day 4

Today, i was taught about how to use keywords and booleans to search more accurately on the internet facilities. There were many different types of facilities in the world wide web like search engines (googles and yahoo), meta search engines(metacrawler), subject directories(google directory and yahoo directory) and databases. I also learnt that search engines are most commonly used in the internet and it works by using spiders or crawlers to look to the information that we need. Google and Yahoo search engines use their own servers' databases in the internet to look for information while meta search engines like MetaCrawler uses other search engines' servers' databases in the internet inclusive of Google and Yahoo to look for information, as for subject directories like google directory, it search the information through different categories.

When i compare the 3 internet facilities by entering the same search phrase and i found that search engines(google) returned the most hits while meta search engines(metacrawler) and subject directories(google directory) returned the least hits.

Links i found today:

Using Google search engine:
http://www.csialliance.org/home/

Using MetaCrawler meta search engine:
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/cyberstalking.htm

Using Google Directory:
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/cyberstalking.htm
(This is the same link as the above that is the most relevant to my topic as the rest of the results that were returned not relevant.)

Reflection

Day 3

We refresh our memories of some parts of the lesson we learnt yesterday during lecture, as for practical, i had done a E-Shopping Spree post which i want to buy earlier on in my blog, study the resources that i found during the last 2 days and state the purpose and reason of 2 of the resources i found. I took the screenshot of the post that i posted in the forum yesterday and added 3 site feeds of my classmates' blogs. I learnt that when i click on the site feeds of my classmates's and i will know the updates whenever they update their blogs.


Resource 1: http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/

Purpose of resource : Personal

Reasons: This website is created and maintain by the author himself. The site is about information security which is related to computer crime. The author himself is also an expert in the line of information security as he is working as an independent security consultant.

Resource 2: http://www.crime-research.org/

Purpose of resource : Information and News

Reasons: This website provides true and accurate information about computer crimes and computer crime is the major topic in the website. The site also has provide news, events and articles about computer crimes.

E-Shopping Spree

JVC SX-XD33 System - Home Theatre Speaker System

Price: S$378.00

Where to get: http://www.e-bay.com.sg/

Comments:

I want to buy this system for my room when i play movies or games, so i can feel the effects. The standing speakers is sleek in design and the speakers won't take up too much of my room's space.

Reflections

What i have done for these 2 days?

Day 2

What i learnt to today is what are the categories of internet like newspaper site, organizational sites, personal sites and subject-based sites and descriptions and the examples of the categories. For practical, i had to find 2 websites that are related to my topic and also learnt to do the bibliography and creating my first blog and updating the blog.

Links found for today:

http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/:
This website is a personal website regarding information security in the internet, the author of the website is also an expert in this area as a consultant in Independent Security.

http://www.crime-research.org/:
This website is an organizational website regarding computer crimes with news articles, events and other related links to other websites.(One of same website as March 24)

Day 1

I learnt about the basic knowledge about Using Internet as a Research Tool, what will be done throughout the course, chose topic to research on and doing practical on find resources for discussion forum, electronic journal and the website related to my research topic. Discussion forum and website related to my research topic is easy to find but finding the electronic journal which is related to my topic is quite difficult as i had to keep on searching for roughly about 45 minutes to find and decide on my final decision for the electronic journal.

Links i find on Day 1:

http://forum.crime-research.org/:
This discussion forum is for people to discuss computer crimes like internet frauds, internet scams, hacking, online child porn and credit card fraud.

http://www.lexisnexis.com/risksolutions/conference/docs/cyber.pdf:
This the part where i took the longest time to find. This journal is introducing about computer crimes, some cases that happened and strategy to deal with the computer crimes committed.

http://www.crime-research.org/:
This website has articles and news for people researching on computer crimes.

Introduction

Hi! This is my first blog and my first time creating a blog, so it maybe boring, please bear with it.

Some introduction about myself, my name is Lian Dai, currently i am a year 2 student studying in Temasek Polytechnic, the course i am in is Diploma in Internet and Multimedia Development (IND) now known as Diploma in Interactive Media Informatics (IMI).