Did You Know
In Depth
In practice
Myths
Real Life
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What is social bookmarking?
it is a way to keep all sources while organizing them
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What is public domain?
meaning anyone can use or copy it freely
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Don't judge a book by its cover, but do judge a website by its...
by its suffix.
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What is Urban Legends Reference Pages?
they are dedicated to exposing all the nonsense that can be found online!
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which newspaper became the first major newspaper to go completely online.
Seattle Post Intelligencer
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What is online bookmarks?
It is a permanent links to your favorite web pages.
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What is Project Gutenberg?
a library of around 30,000 digitized works
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what is a URL suffix
its the letters at the end of a domain name in a Web address
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What is undetermined or unverifiable?
a particular topic that page is marked nonsense that can be found online!
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What is an online source?
caused this complete transformation from a print source into an
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What is social bookmarking?
it lets you access your bookmarks from any computer, and also share them with other people.
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what is LibriVox?
a library of more than 2,000 recordings of public domain
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what does .com stand for?
it stands for commercial site.
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What was created in 1995?
What is Snopes.com
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What caused this complete transformation from a print source into an online source?
One of the biggest reasons is the rise of the I nternet as the preferred destination for news and information.
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What are tags?
It helps you sort and organize your bookmarks into orderly groupings.
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When was the public domain published?
in 1978
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what does .org tell you?
tells you that the website belongs to an organization, club, or association
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What happened in 1998?
One famous "news story" in 1998 reported that two seals that cost thousands of dollars to save from an oil spill were eaten by a killer whale minutes after being released back into the wild.
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What did the newspapers do when they didnt have money?
they mostly shut down everything
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The idea of shared online bookmarks has been around since?
Its been around since 1996
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What is the easiest rule to remember?
U.S. before 1923 is in the public domain
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what does .edu mean?
it means Educational institutions, like colleges or universities
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What happened in 2005 and again in 2009?
much-forwarded email claimed that Mars can appear bigger in the night sky than the moon when it passes close to Earth.
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the Internet allows breaking news to be reported as it happens and spread around the world in
minutes.
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