Friday, February 27, 2009

Week 5 - Social Networks

I checked out all the book marking sites and signed up to stumble upon. I searched a few topics that I was interested in and found a good recommendation for an mp3 encoder. I found this site really useful because it is hard to filter through all the information available on the internet and recommendations for sites makes it much easier. I checked out the top art stories on Stumbleupon.com and the top one was about the side walk chalk guy. It was cool to see all his trompe de l'oeil chalk creations.

I found a story in the top stories of the last 24hrs on the Digg it site about the fifty most admired companies in the world. Turns out Apple Macintosh is at the top and Johnson and Johnson is not far behind. This site had lots of interesting stories on it especially ones that related to US politics.

One of the limitations of a lot of these bookmarking websites often seems to be that they largely focus and/or rely on American stories or news sources (Amerocentric).

1 comment:

ACL web 2.1 said...

Hmmm this Amerocentrism seems to be a common thread in people's blogs.. you are not alone! Well done GN =0)