My Diigo Library Page
Social Bookmarking and Diigo
Erin’s Frequently-Used Websites
1. Google. Larry Page. Sergey Brin. 1998. 2004-present day. https://www.google.com/
- Google is a globally accessible website that is more specifically a search engine. The way Google works is a user of Google will type in certain keywords, names, even questions into the search bar located at the top of the page. Google then acquires and displays all the websites on the internet whose tags/keywords match those entered by the Google user. Google works efficiently by filtering out the most popular and most related to the Google user’s topic, question, or keywords.
2. Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg. Sheryl Sandberg. David Ebersman. Donald Graham.
02/044/2004. 2008-present day. https://www.facebook.com/
- Facebook is another worldly-used website with over 100 million users. Facebook is a great website to communicate with business colleagues as well as friends and family. Facebook is organized, straight-forward, and games/applications are optional. The only problems with Facebook are the large amount of unwanted emails, hackers, and spam.
3. DeviantART. 08/07/2000. 2008-present day. deviantart.com
- Deviantart is home to very many helpful, friendly, talented artists from across the planet. With over 65 million users, deviantart features artwork of all media, including photography, sculpture, textile-making, and drawing/painting. There is not a lot of spam or unwanted email, artists can sometimes find jobs on the website, feature their artwork to followers and in specific groups, and chat to other members in the forums. Deviantart is very organized and is not only superb a website for sharing an art gallery online, but is a profound way of chatting and meeting new people, while maintaining privacy and copyright-security.
4. iTunes. 01/09/2001. 2008-present day.
- the iTunes search engine is wonderful for looking up apps, music, movies, podcasts, even television-shows for a user’s iPod. iTunes features quality, current, and most popular downloads on its homepage. The selection of electronic entertainment iTunes offers is stunning and relatively cheap.
5. Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales. 2001. 2007-present day. http://www.wikipedia.org/
- Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, free to the public and full of information. While Wikipedia’s information can be edited by its users, Wikipedia editors themselves check the information to see if it is not inappropriate. There is a vast variety of subjects a user may search for, and every page contains links within the text that leads the users to page describing the unfamiliar word with the link.
6. Dictionary.com. 2009-present day. dictionary.com
- Dictionary.com is an online dictionary. It is extremely useful, especially when a report is being typed on a computer (so you can simply open the internet window with dictionary.com open). This website is self-explanitory. One thing the creators could make possible on the website is to look up a two-word definition.
7. Amazon. 1995. 2010-present day. http://www.amazon.com/
- Amazon is an online-shopping website. Amazon is useful and efficient because you can search what you’re looking for and find it right away because of the search-engine. Prices can sometimes be cheaper on Amazon than in real life. While a customer must pay shipping/handling, him or her does not have to drive to the store or multiple stores. The only drawback to Amazon for me personally is that it can be easier to view all the items in a store with my eyes and actual presence. Also, there is the factor of uncertainty of what the quality or likeness of the product.
8. Ask. 1996. 2010-present day. http://www.ask.com/
- Ask.com is a website designed for its users to ask a question into the search engine, picking out all or some keywords, and display an answer given by an expert or another user.
9. About. 2010-present day. http://www.about.com/#!/editors-picks/
- About.com is another website for finding answers to a desired question. One pro of using About is that it provides a detailed description of how a person might do something, such as cooking, boating, or drawing. About is mostly resourceful for its links to the user’s desired question.
10. Yahoo.com. January, 1994. 2007-present day. http://att.my.yahoo.com/
- Yahoo is a website that provides a domain for an email address and several links to various kinds of information. While Yahoo has many “bugs” and is very slow, the web design is colorful and very professional. I really enjoy the news (while much of it is very uninteresting) and the website provides much information on pop-culture and other fields of research/trending topics.
11. tumblr.com. 04/27/2007. 2012. https://www.tumblr.com/
- Tumblr is a “blog-spot” where a user can build a profile and receive news from his or her favorite subjects. A user can receive images, texts, news, and other information about his or her favorite band, science, artwork, etc. The user can also share information about his or her life, accumulation of knowledge on a specific topic, funny or interesting tidbits they want to share, or present personal pictures, even artwork.
12. allrecipes.com. 2012. http://allrecipes.com/
- Allrecipes.com is a great website for finding recipes for all kinds of food. I mainly use this website for cookie recipes. While there is a risk of getting a faulty or bad recipe the website is reviewed and offers a rating of 1-5 stars. Mostly all the recipes are free or don’t require a subscription to the site. While I have made many bad recipes from this source, this is the only source I go to, thus a bad batch of cookies/etc. is bound to happen.
13. youtube.com. November 2006. http://www.youtube.com/
- Youtube is a wonderful website for entertainment and information. Youtube is not a place for businesses to present their services or goods, but a business can advertise on this website. People with various talents such as singing, drawing, or other audio or visual skill can display their abilities with the world; some have even become famous through youtube.
14. EasternMichiganUniversity.edu. http://www.emich.edu/
- Eastern Michigan University’s website is not easily navigable, but for a student and his or her profile provides a useful domain to look up or change class schedules, check grades and credit status, and find contact information of certain staff members. A user of Eastern’s website can also find news on campus events and activities.
15. Lizards.com. http://www.lizards.com/
- Lizards.com is a wonderful website for herpetology lovers across the globe. With amazing galleries featuring beautiful lizards and lots of information on breeding/caring for lizards, this website boasts a gorgeous and easily navigable layout.
Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is a term defined as a method for organizing and categorizing websites according to keywords, otherwise known as “tagging.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking.) When a person likes or shares a specific website they can use the method of social bookmarking by saving the website’s link, then add keywords to associate with the particular webite. When the person wants to see the website again they can type in the keywords that describe or are related to the desired website and the website-link will appear for selection quickly.
Diigo is an excellent website to save links to important or interesting websites. Just like a person may bookmark a page in a book due to some resourceful value, having a diigo account allows a user to store a link into an efficient electronic library. Having a diigo account prevents entirely losing the name and link to a preferred website, for a diigo user simply pastes a website URL into a bar, furthermore into a database that is easily accessible and very efficient. A user of diigo can add a description of the website they have “bookmarked” and can assign the web link specific tags so that when he or she searches for a specific site, or in general is looking for a website in his or her database that may provide related information, the user’s diigo will look through the account library to generate valuable websites. Diigo would be a great website for me as a student because long reports may require me accessing an online-article several times. I have in the past forgotten the name of very useful and interesting websites, and I became frustrated at this loss. However, having a diigo account will prevent future losses. The only problem I have found with diigo is one of the diigolet features: the highlighting tool. I found it very hard to control the highlighting tool and I became very frustrated with it. Another fix that diigo could make is the sticky note tool; it would be nice to place the sticky note at a certain spot on the page. Overall, diigo is highly useful and very safe. There are very few advertisements, it is very navigable, and it does not ask for lots of security information.
1. Google. Larry Page. Sergey Brin. 1998. 2004-present day. https://www.google.com/
- Google is a globally accessible website that is more specifically a search engine. The way Google works is a user of Google will type in certain keywords, names, even questions into the search bar located at the top of the page. Google then acquires and displays all the websites on the internet whose tags/keywords match those entered by the Google user. Google works efficiently by filtering out the most popular and most related to the Google user’s topic, question, or keywords.
2. Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg. Sheryl Sandberg. David Ebersman. Donald Graham.
02/044/2004. 2008-present day. https://www.facebook.com/
- Facebook is another worldly-used website with over 100 million users. Facebook is a great website to communicate with business colleagues as well as friends and family. Facebook is organized, straight-forward, and games/applications are optional. The only problems with Facebook are the large amount of unwanted emails, hackers, and spam.
3. DeviantART. 08/07/2000. 2008-present day. deviantart.com
- Deviantart is home to very many helpful, friendly, talented artists from across the planet. With over 65 million users, deviantart features artwork of all media, including photography, sculpture, textile-making, and drawing/painting. There is not a lot of spam or unwanted email, artists can sometimes find jobs on the website, feature their artwork to followers and in specific groups, and chat to other members in the forums. Deviantart is very organized and is not only superb a website for sharing an art gallery online, but is a profound way of chatting and meeting new people, while maintaining privacy and copyright-security.
4. iTunes. 01/09/2001. 2008-present day.
- the iTunes search engine is wonderful for looking up apps, music, movies, podcasts, even television-shows for a user’s iPod. iTunes features quality, current, and most popular downloads on its homepage. The selection of electronic entertainment iTunes offers is stunning and relatively cheap.
5. Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales. 2001. 2007-present day. http://www.wikipedia.org/
- Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, free to the public and full of information. While Wikipedia’s information can be edited by its users, Wikipedia editors themselves check the information to see if it is not inappropriate. There is a vast variety of subjects a user may search for, and every page contains links within the text that leads the users to page describing the unfamiliar word with the link.
6. Dictionary.com. 2009-present day. dictionary.com
- Dictionary.com is an online dictionary. It is extremely useful, especially when a report is being typed on a computer (so you can simply open the internet window with dictionary.com open). This website is self-explanitory. One thing the creators could make possible on the website is to look up a two-word definition.
7. Amazon. 1995. 2010-present day. http://www.amazon.com/
- Amazon is an online-shopping website. Amazon is useful and efficient because you can search what you’re looking for and find it right away because of the search-engine. Prices can sometimes be cheaper on Amazon than in real life. While a customer must pay shipping/handling, him or her does not have to drive to the store or multiple stores. The only drawback to Amazon for me personally is that it can be easier to view all the items in a store with my eyes and actual presence. Also, there is the factor of uncertainty of what the quality or likeness of the product.
8. Ask. 1996. 2010-present day. http://www.ask.com/
- Ask.com is a website designed for its users to ask a question into the search engine, picking out all or some keywords, and display an answer given by an expert or another user.
9. About. 2010-present day. http://www.about.com/#!/editors-picks/
- About.com is another website for finding answers to a desired question. One pro of using About is that it provides a detailed description of how a person might do something, such as cooking, boating, or drawing. About is mostly resourceful for its links to the user’s desired question.
10. Yahoo.com. January, 1994. 2007-present day. http://att.my.yahoo.com/
- Yahoo is a website that provides a domain for an email address and several links to various kinds of information. While Yahoo has many “bugs” and is very slow, the web design is colorful and very professional. I really enjoy the news (while much of it is very uninteresting) and the website provides much information on pop-culture and other fields of research/trending topics.
11. tumblr.com. 04/27/2007. 2012. https://www.tumblr.com/
- Tumblr is a “blog-spot” where a user can build a profile and receive news from his or her favorite subjects. A user can receive images, texts, news, and other information about his or her favorite band, science, artwork, etc. The user can also share information about his or her life, accumulation of knowledge on a specific topic, funny or interesting tidbits they want to share, or present personal pictures, even artwork.
12. allrecipes.com. 2012. http://allrecipes.com/
- Allrecipes.com is a great website for finding recipes for all kinds of food. I mainly use this website for cookie recipes. While there is a risk of getting a faulty or bad recipe the website is reviewed and offers a rating of 1-5 stars. Mostly all the recipes are free or don’t require a subscription to the site. While I have made many bad recipes from this source, this is the only source I go to, thus a bad batch of cookies/etc. is bound to happen.
13. youtube.com. November 2006. http://www.youtube.com/
- Youtube is a wonderful website for entertainment and information. Youtube is not a place for businesses to present their services or goods, but a business can advertise on this website. People with various talents such as singing, drawing, or other audio or visual skill can display their abilities with the world; some have even become famous through youtube.
14. EasternMichiganUniversity.edu. http://www.emich.edu/
- Eastern Michigan University’s website is not easily navigable, but for a student and his or her profile provides a useful domain to look up or change class schedules, check grades and credit status, and find contact information of certain staff members. A user of Eastern’s website can also find news on campus events and activities.
15. Lizards.com. http://www.lizards.com/
- Lizards.com is a wonderful website for herpetology lovers across the globe. With amazing galleries featuring beautiful lizards and lots of information on breeding/caring for lizards, this website boasts a gorgeous and easily navigable layout.
Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is a term defined as a method for organizing and categorizing websites according to keywords, otherwise known as “tagging.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking.) When a person likes or shares a specific website they can use the method of social bookmarking by saving the website’s link, then add keywords to associate with the particular webite. When the person wants to see the website again they can type in the keywords that describe or are related to the desired website and the website-link will appear for selection quickly.
Diigo is an excellent website to save links to important or interesting websites. Just like a person may bookmark a page in a book due to some resourceful value, having a diigo account allows a user to store a link into an efficient electronic library. Having a diigo account prevents entirely losing the name and link to a preferred website, for a diigo user simply pastes a website URL into a bar, furthermore into a database that is easily accessible and very efficient. A user of diigo can add a description of the website they have “bookmarked” and can assign the web link specific tags so that when he or she searches for a specific site, or in general is looking for a website in his or her database that may provide related information, the user’s diigo will look through the account library to generate valuable websites. Diigo would be a great website for me as a student because long reports may require me accessing an online-article several times. I have in the past forgotten the name of very useful and interesting websites, and I became frustrated at this loss. However, having a diigo account will prevent future losses. The only problem I have found with diigo is one of the diigolet features: the highlighting tool. I found it very hard to control the highlighting tool and I became very frustrated with it. Another fix that diigo could make is the sticky note tool; it would be nice to place the sticky note at a certain spot on the page. Overall, diigo is highly useful and very safe. There are very few advertisements, it is very navigable, and it does not ask for lots of security information.
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Book Review #1!
Ordinary People
Truth and Pain
I am not much of a reader; I rarely read for fun and my mind is easily distracted, resulting in giant portions of unprocessed, meaningless text. Therefore, when a book can keep even me interested, it has to be good. Ordinary People, written by Judith Guest, is the story of a mid-20th century family and the reality of the relationships held within the members. At a point in time when divorce was considered taboo and family discrepancies were not made public, the Jarrett family may seem crazy to a person coming from the setting’s era; to a current-day reader, however, they seem pretty normal. Throughout all of time poor relations have occurred within families, whether or not they were made noticeable, and Ordinary People emphasizes that fact.
The Jarrett family has just lost their eldest child, Jordan Jarrett, and nearly loses the other son to suicide. Conrad Jarrett, the second son, undergoes great depression at the death of his brother and the social neglect he faces from his parents and attempts suicide. Now, Conrad having returned home from hospitalization, tension engulfs the remaining family, causing the issues in the relationships to surface. A tender-loving, sensitive, and consumed father feels guilt for ignoring his son, never blaming Conrad for his stress-induced behavior. However, a rational, intelligent, selfish mother has no intent of “babying” her child, a person having great difficulty in showing affection.
Conrad is set back a year in school and has to relearn how to socialize, to hide his story, to fit in with his peers, to get back into the motion of life, now with the help of an eccentric psychologist. The story of Conrad and his family is intensely bitter-sweet, throwing punches at the reader just when him or her thinks that life for the Jarretts can only get better, then resolving the tension through Conrad’s realizations and at the very end. The novel is crammed with tear-jerking episodes in the life of an ordinary family, very painful emotions of mourning and hardship guaranteed to move the reader. If you read this book, you may even have to put the book down at times to catch your breath or wipe a tear from your eye! A real page-turner, Ordinary People visits the darkest, most unsensible reaches of the human mind and reveals the truth about imperfect families.
Truth and Pain
I am not much of a reader; I rarely read for fun and my mind is easily distracted, resulting in giant portions of unprocessed, meaningless text. Therefore, when a book can keep even me interested, it has to be good. Ordinary People, written by Judith Guest, is the story of a mid-20th century family and the reality of the relationships held within the members. At a point in time when divorce was considered taboo and family discrepancies were not made public, the Jarrett family may seem crazy to a person coming from the setting’s era; to a current-day reader, however, they seem pretty normal. Throughout all of time poor relations have occurred within families, whether or not they were made noticeable, and Ordinary People emphasizes that fact.
The Jarrett family has just lost their eldest child, Jordan Jarrett, and nearly loses the other son to suicide. Conrad Jarrett, the second son, undergoes great depression at the death of his brother and the social neglect he faces from his parents and attempts suicide. Now, Conrad having returned home from hospitalization, tension engulfs the remaining family, causing the issues in the relationships to surface. A tender-loving, sensitive, and consumed father feels guilt for ignoring his son, never blaming Conrad for his stress-induced behavior. However, a rational, intelligent, selfish mother has no intent of “babying” her child, a person having great difficulty in showing affection.
Conrad is set back a year in school and has to relearn how to socialize, to hide his story, to fit in with his peers, to get back into the motion of life, now with the help of an eccentric psychologist. The story of Conrad and his family is intensely bitter-sweet, throwing punches at the reader just when him or her thinks that life for the Jarretts can only get better, then resolving the tension through Conrad’s realizations and at the very end. The novel is crammed with tear-jerking episodes in the life of an ordinary family, very painful emotions of mourning and hardship guaranteed to move the reader. If you read this book, you may even have to put the book down at times to catch your breath or wipe a tear from your eye! A real page-turner, Ordinary People visits the darkest, most unsensible reaches of the human mind and reveals the truth about imperfect families.