Comments on: What Are You Reading, Anyway?

By: Goldie the Goldfish

Goldie the Goldfish — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:39:17 +0000

Haha they do seem to just be letting everyone on the internet these days. I like the straight paragraph of questions you have at the beginning because I think it really illustrates just how many things there are to consider when it comes to reliability (and why the book is important). I like that you wrote about how larger companies create and fund non-profits to make themselves look better, that’s probably what stuck out most from the readings, at least to me. I also think you did a great job of summarizing the steps to SIFT in a simple and concise way.

By: e.g.lane

e.g.lane — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:49:26 +0000

I love your laid back way of explaining this text! I actually chuckled at the “I’ve heard they let anyone there,” bit. You have done a great job of condensing their information. Some of the things that they introduced were completely new to me. I had no idea there was a stigma against ‘.coms.’ I also really enjoyed the introduction of SIFT. SIFT is a great way to dig into a website rather than relying on our own logic and reasoning skills within the article itself. It’s equal parts disappointing and yet not surprising that we have entered an era that requires a new, more involved way of using the internet. It takes a lot more effort than it used to, I feel like, but maybe that is just because I am young, and it’s always been this way.

By: jenjam02

jenjam02 — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:40:05 +0000

You have a great attention grabber at the beginning. The internet is a scary place. The SIFT method is a game changer for navigating online info and gives us some form of advantage when diving into the internet now. It is crazy to think that a .org (sites that we were always told were trustworthy in grade school) doesn’t automatically mean a site is trustworthy. You definitely have to look closer now and get all the facts before trusting any kind of site. In a way we become detectives in order to retrieve the actual information we’re looking for or sus out the bad websites. It’s awesome that you’ve already seen benefits from using these strategies. With so much going on online, having tools like these really helps us SIFT through the chaos. I apologize for the pun at the end.