2.0 Wikipedia

For this blogging assignment I tried to find something that Wikipedia hasn't covered in depth. I looked up Canadian Sign Language, and the result was: “Did you mean: catalan sign language,” which is Spanish. When broadening the search to ‘sign languages,’ it produced a list of many sign languages used around the world, but the Canadian version was not included. It does mention Canada when looking up American Sign Language, saying that ASL is dominant in the US and English-speaking Canada. From what I have learned, CSL is very similar to ASL, but not the same.

Although Wikipedia is not always a reliable source of information, it is a very helpful tool when wanting to obtain some very basic knowledge on a topic. It could provide related ideas and/or key words which would be useful when searching in the more credible resources.

2.0 Delicious

Considering the endless number of topics that we could encounter, Delicious is a fairly organized method of displaying them. However, improvements could probably be made. At first it is a rather confusing site to start working with; there's an overwhelming number of topics/tags to choose from. When creating a bookmark, a user has to choose a more commonly used word to make it findable. Interesting stuff could get lost or go unnoticed if a word becomes less popular, but maybe that's just how I'm seeing it right now.

Newbie

Blogging certainly seems to be an effective way to communicate to a wide rage of people; it's a medium that can likely be used in many different ways for countless topics. As a newbie, I am just interested in exploring this.