Chapter 4

Chapter 4 felt somewhat like a continuation of chapter three in a sense because I kept learning new search engine skills such as about how to search for newly published web pages, but it also had more of a news vibe to it. The chapter talks about how low cost of web publishing encourages people to promote their own views commonly in the form of a blog. Which had me thinking isn’t social media blogging? So why is there not a cost to blog on social media? I can search up specific tweets via google that will be in googles database, so is Twitter paying for that? Another interesting fact from the reading was that only four wire services account for the majority of the news, two of which are in the United States. I have heard of the Associated Press before but the other three were new to me.

The chapter gave numerous different ways to utilize resources on the internet such as the weather, employment, realty, and medical sites. I have to say WebMD is something I primarily avoid because I feel like whenever I research my symptoms its always the worst-case scenario, definitely not something you want a hypochondriac to be spending a lot of time on.  The last part of the chapter that really intrigued me was the section about intellectual property. I was pretty well versed on copyright and how you can use it with the fair use, but intellectual property to me was a bit vaguer. Mostly when I hear about intellectual property, I think of a tech guy who came up with something spectacular, but now the company he created this under has the rights to his intellectual property and if he ever leaves the company, he doesn’t have the right to his own creation. The book describes that on a webpage intellectual property can be images, videos, text on a page, or even the design of the page itself. I was surprised that, things as small as that could be patented or trademarked under intellectual property.


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