Sharing and Storage of Knowledge

For our homework we have been asked to look at how we share, store and find out infomation in every day life and so for the past fortnight i have been keeping note of how i do these things. Firstly i started by looking at how i found out knowledge for our different homeworks.

I found myself looking at two main websites: Wikipedia and Direct.gov.  These are both very interesting and different sites. Everyone knows Wikipedia and obviously most people use it but there is a lot of criticism about it saying that some of it is false (because its a wiki) although from my experience this is wrong and i find it very useful. Then theres Direct.gov this is a very reliable site as it is run by the government but there is a lot of text on it and it is sometimes hard to find the key points. But using both of these sites i can get a good knowledge of almost any topic.

Then i looked at how i found out random information. I realised that i almost exclusively used answers websites, these include yahoo answers, Answers.com. These are very useful because they have an incredible database of answered questions and if you need to find something out you can ask it and in my experience it gets answered pretty quickly.

Finally i looked at sharing and storing information. I realised that at the moment i have several different devices that i store info on. I use my ipod, phone, computer, ipad, whiteboard, hand and my memory. This seems very confusing and i realised that i should try and cut it down so from now on i am trying to just use my phone and laptop for important information. But then i thought about how i would access my laptop when i was away from it. So i googled it and found a website called accessmycomputer.com. This is an incredible website where you link it up to your computer and then when you go onto the website from another computer you can log in and it will turn that computer into your laptop with all your files, games and notes. So i signed up for a 2 month free trial and so far i have found it incredibly useful.

J-Dog