JustFacts.com vs FactCheck.org

C – Currency

Both Justfacts.com and Factcheck.org are up to date and modern websites. both hold a Copyright that is for 2018 and both have working interface with no broken links. Similarly both sites have had a long history, with factcheck starting in 2003 and justfacts beginnine in 1997 (20 years ago!)

R – Relevance

Both sites offer a wide range on modern day topics that populate the standard news cycle. if someone needed to form an opinion on many modern day topics such as gun-control or the new tax cuts, they certainly could get a wealth of information on either site.

A – Authority

The book warns about the dangers of separate url extensions. For example, FactCheck is a nonprofit organization (.org) that started through the Anennburg Public Policy institute, an educational branch of Pennsylvania university systems. Justfacts however, is a .com which normally signifies that it is a company or for profit. similarly to factcheck though, justfacts has a certificate of institutionalization from the government and an index as a non-profit company. Both of these sources seem to hold authority.

A – Accuracy

Both sites state that they offer a certificate of integrity and a mission to only report the unbiased truth. Both sources also have a very plainly visible contact page and JustFacts also encourages readers to write in to contribute their voice or point out discrepancy. Both sites seem to offer e level of transparency that helps assist their accuracy

P – Purpose

As mentioned, both websites say that they want to provide a free source of information. One thing to note however is that factcheck.org does offer up numerous ways to donate to “the cause”

Hey everyone, My name is Will DeLuca

I’m an Economics Major here at Georgia State in my Junior year. I’m taking this class because I want to make sure I get the most out of my technology use and I think it’s great that this course is offered. I’ve seen some of the things you can do with just a little extra time in excel, MS word, and other programs people use every day, so I’m excited to see what a little digging can uncover.

In an attempt to understand the security side of cryptocurrency, this search only targets sites that include both “cryptocurrency” and the word “blockchains” a method in which the cryptocurrency in itself is encrypted and trackable. My results are viewable in the above Table, as well as a frequency distribution of sites ordered from most common to least common. Strangely enough, the top site on all engines is pwc.com, a webpage that seems to be promoting a consulting service for a british company. It’s not one I had ever heard of before, especially as some of the other sites in the list I would consider more reputable (in the US at least) such as Forbes and CNBC. Interestly as well, Google had it’s fair share of sites that were unique only to the google and startpage top five; unsurprising because startpage claims to be a meta-engine based on google to begin with. It’s strange seeing less popular search engines have more congruent results, and I don’t know how it makes me feel about the efficacy of Google to provide me with unbiased results.

Task 1: Lead an Online Presentation:

Google Docs or Prezi. 

Both allow quick and easy slideshow creation without the worry of having to be too skilled in any specific program. Google Slides is a staunch reflection of powerpoint anyways so most people won’t have any issue using it.

Task 2: Aggregate Study Materials:

Google Drive or Dropbox

Both allow the storage of files, pictures and links, and can be shared between many different people, such as an economics class. Google docs especially makes it easy for many online resources to have a shared space with files in the fact that google drive allows links to be hosted directly on the page.

Task 3: Tour of Berlin

Google Maps/Earth or plotaroute.com

Both of these tools allows for the creation of specific paths throughout the city and are easily shareable, especially in the google maps ability to download the map file itself. Google earth and maps both have a street view feature, which allows more immersion into the virtual tour without having to switch programs.

Task 4: Collaborative Research Project.

Google Docs and Webex

Google docs allows the paper itself to be collaborated on by the entire group, while a service like webex can facilitate groupwide communication and collaboration on the project itself, whether that is writing or researching the topic.