It really helps to read the help files... in class we were asked by a professor to read on the Google.com search basics and practice on applying those searching techniques in practice. I decided to use my own website: http://www.mikhailoparin.com. This tremendous improvement on understanding of the phrase: "KNOWING how to search and KNOWING what …
Reading Response to: “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”
creating a web search engine is not an easy task for an ever increasing growth of the web, however, with today's technologies, the technical part of improving its infrastructures is getting easier and cheaper. The improvement of the search quality is the main goal here. If I understand it correctly, the problem here is the …
Class work: Comparing PsycINFO and Google search engines
searching for "educational system in America" Google scholar: came back with the result of 3.2 mil. hits. CSA web: came up with 249 publications ---------------------------- Google: searched instead of "Find articles with all of the words" i used a different field to "Find articles with all of the words with the exact phrase" which narrowed …
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Reading Response to: “Publish, Then Filter”
"Here Comes Everybody," Chapter 4 reflection: The chapter begins by saying that "media landscape is transofrmed, because personal communication and publishing, previously separate functions" are now merging together. The media landscape becomes more miscellaneous. The problem is that bad filtering is mixed with good. In other words, "bad" miscellany clogs up the internet. Peronal postings, …
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Reading Response to: “Psychology Journal Articles”
Reflection on the readings. This chapter begins with talking about research and peer review process. Psychologists prefer to use a quality research because it is done by peer review process, which is a careful and meticulous process of reviewing and contributing to the thought process on the works of professionals by other professionals in a …
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Class work: Lab on delicious, bookmarks, tagging, comparing, and searching
I have chosen to add local multimedia production houses both public and private to my list of bookmarks on delicious. When compared my tagging to others I found it interesting that mostly our tags matched one another. For example: Portland Community Media website has tags that reflect geographical location, type of business and type of …
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Reading Response to: “The laws of the jungle”
In a physical world we have to fix the order of things we use every time we use them and to the extent of how organized we are. In a digital environment computers do that for us, through the programming we write for them. Digital miscellany of "dumping everything into one big pile" only works …
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Reading Response to: “Lumps and Splits”
The "tree structure" is broken in the third order. It is not physical so physics don't apply to the "order" of miscellaneous. Clear as day. "the better your children at Twenty Questions, the more unprepared they're likely to be... (in) college" - true. The structure of 20 categories that child is learning is limiting and …
Class work: SEARCHING for MENDELEEV, WHERE ARE YOU? Part II
Search Griffin Catalog Clicked advanced search tab entered word <mendeleev> into the first tab under <Any Field:> In Limited to list I picked the following: Location: <ANY>; Material Type <ANY>; Language <English> the search result came back with three results: the descriptive data of the Highly relevant title entree is important to have in order to perform …
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Reading Response to: “The Geography of Knowledge”
Chapter 3 reflection: Leave it up to religion, specifically Christianity, to become a problem... aside my personal views, this chapter has broadened my understanding on the issue of categorizing and information sorting methods. For me the decimal system of Melvil Dewey mean absolutely nothing, I understand a number is assigned, but how does it get …
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