credibility
January 30, 2008
In our text, The Blogging Book, by Aliza Risdahl, it is said in chapter 2:
Look closely at blogs you are visiting for research. Can you identify who is behind them? What proof do you have that the creators are reputable?
What a very simple, and surprisingly not obvious enough, bit of advice from the author. I feel it is far to common for people online to use blog, wikis, and other sources of free and public-editable content as sources for their information. It is more common that not, in some cases, for today’s college and high school students to use Wikipedia as a source for information regarding a research topic. This is strongly frowned upon by many universities. In fact, some universities will give failing grades to students who use these sorts of sources. I think this is a very important point. Blogs and wikis are generally good sources for information that is simple, or easy enough for a very general description to suffice.
