Internet workshop on the second day

What we were doing on the second today

Today, which is the third day of Internet workshop for journalists, we continued with yesterday’s topic of blogging.

We also touched on internet as a tool in journalism whereby we discussed that the main function of Internet to journalists is to act as a source of information ie, background information and facts.

Furthermore we found out that web pages have been increasing hence allow users to have a wider spectrum of finding information. It is said that in 2004, there were 13 billion web pages.

In July 2008 however, Google announced to have discovered 1 trillion web pages. Also when finding information, the most important aspect is to think about what you are looking for before going to the Internet.

It is important to note exactly what type of information, commentary or data will help build up the story and what is the exact fact that you are looking for.

You can therefore decide about the information if you can find it from one of the websites that you already know the address or by using search engines like Google, Yahoo etc.

We also touched on search engines. These have several functions namely crawling, storing and indexing. The usefulness of a search engine depends on the relevance of the information it gives.
Ends.