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02/05/2005 17:48 #31643
Organic BananasDoes anyone belive that Dole bran organic bananas can be so cheap and really be organic. I have my doubts, but still bought them. What constitutes organic now-a-days?
02/05/2005 17:41 #31642
Diana's Mike DreamThat dream about the wax museum [search]"wax museum"[/search] is so freaky but somehow so possible. I am willing to make the web site and online storefront for it if you ever open it (e:mike) , haha.
02/05/2005 16:24 #31641
Search engines and social capitalSearch engines, while extremely helpful for people searching for information quickly, do not promote a sense of community. They offer the same sort of dynamic as using an encyclopedia - a dynamic in which the end user is not required to give back to the knowledge base and has to accept the validity of its contents at face value. In this type of top down knowledge delivery system, the effects of social capital is almost completely negated.
In communities such as the WELL
yahoo groups, usernets, mailinglists, forums, estrip you get to know the people who are producing the answers and can decide if you trust that person as a source of information based on their history and your personal interactions with them. With search engines none of that exists. There is no need to be accurate, only a need to show up at the top of the return list, which does not equate validity, just a repetition of keywords and other people (possibly yourself) linking to you.
Furthermore, the results of most searches on the Internet only give you information that already exists while online communities allow the user to pose questions that possibly have not been answered yet and get results from other people with expertise in that subject matter.
This is not to say that search engines are not the one of the best ways in which to find information, just as an encylopedia is a great way to find out about something.
In communities such as the WELL
yahoo groups, usernets, mailinglists, forums, estrip you get to know the people who are producing the answers and can decide if you trust that person as a source of information based on their history and your personal interactions with them. With search engines none of that exists. There is no need to be accurate, only a need to show up at the top of the return list, which does not equate validity, just a repetition of keywords and other people (possibly yourself) linking to you.Furthermore, the results of most searches on the Internet only give you information that already exists while online communities allow the user to pose questions that possibly have not been answered yet and get results from other people with expertise in that subject matter.
This is not to say that search engines are not the one of the best ways in which to find information, just as an encylopedia is a great way to find out about something.
02/05/2005 14:22 #31640
Waffles are tasty(e:terry) decided to make waffles for all of us this morning. It was very nice of him. They are even gluten free so (e:matthew) can eat them but its 1:19 and he is still not up yet.
Zack if you see this sign on or call me, I don't have you number but still want to go.
Zack if you see this sign on or call me, I don't have you number but still want to go.
02/05/2005 02:51 #31639
My epoetryWow, if you type in dynamically written epoetry (GOOGLE - dynamically written epoetry) into google, my poems are the first thing that come up!!