The good, the bad and the ugly

The research topic that I choose was one I had to write on child obesity.

The Good: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/obesityinchildren.html

• What does the URL tell you? The URL tells me that is it a government site because it has "gov" in it. It also tells me that it is associates with the National Institute of Health because it has "nih" in it.
• Who is the author? And, how current is the information? The group responsible for this page is the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. The information was last updated 2/18/2010.
• What indicators are there that it is quality information? There are several links to other websites associates with the National Institute of Health.
• What do others say or think about this resource? When I typed the URL into google a long list of websites came up that had that link on their site.
• What's the purpose and intent of the resource? Are there better sources available? The purpose of the site is to give more information about childhood obesity and to provide information to people about this issue. I think that this is a good source.

The Bad: http://www.myoverweightchild.com/

• What does the URL tell you? From the URL I believe this is a commercial website.
• Who is the author? And, how current is the information? There is not an author listed on this web page and there is not a date provided.
• What indicators are there that it is quality information? There are no indications that this is quality information.
• What do others say or think about this resource?
• What's the purpose and intent of the resource? Are there better sources available? The purpose of the site is to give information about childhood obesity but there are much better sources available. I'm not sure how reliable this information is.

Wikipedia Part 2

After reading the information provided, I do think that wikipedia is some what reliable but I am still leery. I guess its been forced into my brain so much that even with what I just read I still don't think I can trust it 100%.

All the news thats fit to print

How many internet users are in the world?

According to this website there are 1,733,993,741 internet users in the world.

Who is allowed to publish information via the internet?

According to this website as long as you have access to register with a websites that publishes information you can publish whatever you want.

I think this information means that internet users need to be careful about what we read. If anyone can post what they want we need to be cautious about what we believe. Thats a lot of internet users and a lot of people who can post whatever the heck they want to. Some people are naive and believe everything they read without getting a second opinion. Its easy to be fooled by stuff we read on the internet. Its a scary world out there kids!!