Comments on: Adventures in Markdown and Internet Sleuthing

By: swanXVI

swanXVI — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 03:40:53 +0000

CSS, while still ridiculously confusing to me, is a really fun tool to play around with. It’s been exciting to play around with my guide (mostly making it look uglier). Your breakdown of Chapters 4 and 5 of Verified was great. Learning how to properly fact check, especially given how much information we’re fed through the internet on a daily basis, is only becoming more important every day. I also fully agree with your assertion that these skills are easy. It shouldn’t be hard to fact check, but I know that I’ve been guilty of assuming that the right information is too far out of my reach when it just isn’t.

By: sunburned cowgirl

sunburned cowgirl — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:39:58 +0000

Hi! I loved your post, and how informative it was. It served as a great recap of these two chapters. I particularly liked how you phrased the (in my opinion) key point to the readings by writing, “In Verified, it’s stressed that you need more information, basically every time, in order to get a better grasp on the information or situation you’re looking at.” I think this is the key point the book is trying to make. Verified has taught us how to look at research and the internet in a different light, so in short, this book is doing exactly what you say, it’s helping us grasp information and use the internet in a more efficient way. Overall, I think you do a great job at summarizing these chapters! Also, I wasn’t in class on Thursday, so I feel like I missed a fun day (LOL). Great job on this post, and I can’t wait to read more from you in the future.

By: Bryson

Bryson — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:37:44 +0000

Seeing glimpses of CSS and HTML excited me as well. I look forward to truly personalizing our sites. I liked when you said, “Get informed, and you can more easily avoid getting ‘got'” because that is a funny way to put it. Those who seek to mislead on the Internet know how to take advantage of what people don’t know, and the only way to know what you don’t know is to look for more information. It seems very valuable to get a birds eye view of a topic before diving in to better understand how the parts interact. Everything is more complex than a yes or no and I think the gestalt idea starts touching on that.