Electronic Archives:Using the Internet

While after reading through this section, the questions they listed to help someone critique a websites usefulness and credibility caught my eye. Since the internet has basically become the first place many people look when doing research I feel these questions should become common knowledge among internet users. While we have discussed this in our class and we have been taught how to critique a website, I feel many people are very uneducated when it comes to this matter. While many people will tend to think what they find first must be right, it actually takes time and effort to do quality research on the internet. One must gain depth and credibility in their research which is made much faster with technology such as the internet but it still takes time and effort. I also like how they describe the Web working in three different way. First being a place to find information on virtually anything. Second it is a good place to go to look for contact information for you to obtain further information. Third how it has has created its own subculture in multiple ways.