WIKIS
Wiki is a piece of server that allows other people to create and edit freely Web pages content using any Web browser.
Wiki was created in 1995 by Ward Cunningham. Its term was also inspired from the Hawaiian word “wwiki or wiki-wiki” which means “quick” and is often used for their transportation.
In editing Wikis, there is such a term as “Wikitext” where you can insert texts like in usual paragraphs and also edit its text for changing its text styles.
Wiki is a web site where different kind of people can edit and share their own information. Also here wiki is server where people can enter and encode just like their own blogs. Though it’s not like a typical blog where you can encode anything you desire, its not, because only data that can go with the flow of information can be accepted for it serves as people’s online encyclopedia.
Source: www.wikipedia.org
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
Google Scholar is a simple way for searching scholarly literatures, such as peer –viewed papers, theses, books, abstract and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Google Scholar organizes articles just like the way researchers do. It weighs full text articles, the authors, and the publication in which the articles appeared and also on how often the certain article had been sited in other scholarly literature.
Source: www.googlesholar.google.com
BLOG SEARCH
Blog search is a websites that focuses on blogs. You can find here different kinds of blogs on different kinds of categories, such as political commentary, summer salad recipes.
This Blog Search’s index is also updated so that people would have accurate and up-to-date information and is not just that, its blogs are also written in different kind of languages.
It includes every blog that publishes a site fee either RSS or Atom, but it does not restrict any blogs from Bloggers blog, or blogs from any other services.
Anyone can use Blog Search to find either specific post or entire blogs. Nevertheless, when an entire blog seemed to have several match to other blogs, it automatically gives you a short list of blogs.
Source: www.blogsearch.google.com
Skype
It was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. It allows people to communicate easily and fun with anyone anywhere, and if both people are using skype, it’s free.
It has what they call the SKYPEOUT, where users are allowed to make a traditional phone call using the traditional telephone numbers, including mobile phones – which supports N800 and N810 Internet Tablets, but for a fee which varies on how far the location is. Then there’s SKYPEIN which allows user to receive calls on their computers dialed thru regular phone numbers to local Skype phone number, but this is only limited to some countries, like Australia, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, The Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, Swtizerland, UK, and United States.
Then in 2006, Skype introduced their very own Videoconferencing only for Windows and Mac OS X clients. Skype 2.0 for Linux was only released last March 13, 2008 which supports most of the Asus Linux system.
Skype is available in PSP (PlayStation Protable) Slim and Lite when you download the 3.90 firmware update, but you still need a headphone that connects to PSP 200 headphones. Other companies have also produced Skype phones that can be connected via WiFi.
Source: www.skype.com
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
Encyclopedia Britannica is located at Chicago, Illinois, which is a leading provider of learning and knowledge. It was born in the 18th century in Scotland in the middle of the ferment known as the Scottish Enlightenment. The first release of Britannica was published on one section at a time, in “fascicles”, over a three year period, in 1768. Then in 1771, they published a three volume set, which was quickly sold out, and then on 1777-84, they published their first 10 volume set as their second edition.
The Encyclopedia Britannica was first bought to the United States as a pirated printed version in Philadelphia in 1790 by Thomas Dobson. Today Encyclopedia Britannica has made themselves as the larger and more diverse line of products than ever before. Now they have their own website version where people can surf as much information they need and they are still producing their 32 volume of encyclopedia as the oldest reference book in the English language.
Source: www.encyclopediabritannica.com
Global Vioces
It was founded to strengthen the transparency and accountability of government by the integration of citizen’s voices in policy and decision making. It is the world’s leading provider of electronic town meeting or the 21st century town meeting. It allows citizens to be able to participate in town’s decision making.
Source: www.globalvoices.com
CMFR
The Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility was organized in 1989 as a non-stock non-profit foundation that supports the difficult work of enhancing ethical and professional values in the Philippines. CMFR is composed of journalists, business people, academics and civil society.
CMFR did not consider themselves as the “watchdog” of the press but more of the media critics. They have succeeded in establishing the idea of internal checks to prevent the abuse of press freedom or the term of self-regulation after the martial law and when democracy arrived.
They were also the one who established the Philippine Journalism Review (PJR), first as a quarterly, and later as a bi-monthly issue as a monitor of the news coverage within the country. PJR is not just a publication; it is the result of continuing monitoring of how the press covers and reports on even so as to encourage best practice.
In 2005, PJR was reformatted into a monthly issue so that the material would be more accessible to journalists, academics, and students as well as to the puclic.
In 1995, CMFR began the JVO Journalism Seminar, which brings finalists for the JVOAIJ awards in panel discussion of the best stories for the year.
Source: www.cmfr.com
