Matt's research blog: October 2009

Saturday, October 24, 2009

RJA #8c

Peaceful Resolution
www.Blinkx.com
10/24/09
about 7000 hits
relevance 3 of 5

RJA #8b

Peaceful Resolution
www.icerocket.com
6121 hits
relevance 4 of 5

RJA #8a

Search.com
Peaceful+resolution
10/24/09
75 hits
3 of 5 relevance

Search.com
Revolution
10/24/09
2,332 hits
1 of 5 relevance

Monday, October 19, 2009

Internet Research Assignment

Technorati www.Technorati.com
Summary: Searches the internet for blog information regarding search string
Strengths: you can find information posted by tons of people all over the world on topics relevant to you
Weaknesses: Does not search the world wide web databases
Searches blogger, blogspot and various other blogging sites.
does not use boolean or search engine math
Special Features: used to be able to ping a blog and it would give you feedback on your blog, but this is not currently available

For my field research I plan to contact people who are politically involved, and get an interview, I want to ask them questions about peaceful resolutions, they way that they are conducted, and what action they think should be taken to improve the outcomes of peaceful resolution. I will also ask them questions regaurding their personal opinions on war, the current wars, and the current manner of handling international affairs. I also want to interview a Soldier and find out about his/her opinion on war, given that they have served the country and have seen the gore of war.

RJA #7b

Searched"Peaceful Resolution"
Technorati
3 hits
Rlevance:2 of 5

Searched "Revolution"
Technorati
1146 Hits
Rlevance:1 of 5

Searched "Chaotic Revolution"
Technorati
0 hits
Rlevance 0

Monday, October 12, 2009

RJA #7a

I regularly only use google to do internet research, and while I know that is kind of close-minded, I think that it is the easiest and most friendly to use. On occasion I find myself on Ask, but only when I cannot find my information on google. Other times, like in the instance of this semester's research paper, I use other search engines, like bing. I enjoy experimenting with most of them though, and will probably find myself doing that more frequently now that I am hard pressed to find information relevant to my topic.

RJA #6c

Protopage

RJA #6a

Peace news

http://www.peacenews.info/specials/mahl.html

10/12/09

This article talks about nonviolent action being taken by Islamic officials.

RJA #5c

I posted a comment on Erik and Becka's pages, both of them had fairly well refined search strings, and I didn't really have any advice for them to help better their strings.

http://boa76.blogspot.com/2009/09/ethics-and http://becka-

ncis06.blogspot.com/2009/09/key-words-for-topic.html#comment-form-engineering-ethics-and.html#comment-form