Getting to the Good Stuff—Finding Good Help from Adequate Online Sources

Getting to the Good Stuff—Finding Good Help from Adequate Online Sources Boundless and Broad, But… Let’s see…Thai red curry recipe? Check. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame entries from 1994? Yup. A search engine for the central library in Buenos Aires? You... More

Getting to the Good Stuff—Finding Good Help from Adequate Online Sources Boundless and Broad, But… Let’s see…Thai red curry recipe? Check. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame entries from 1994? Yup. A search engine for the central library in Buenos Aires? You bet—just brush up on your Spanish beforehand. Question: is there anything one can’t find on the Internet? The probable answer is “Sure, but it will likely be available soon. ” Even the biggest dreamers out there couldn’t have speculated just how far-ranging the Internet’s information availability would be 25 years ago. It’s incredible. New information is added daily, existing information is updated, and people form new connections. But then there’s the matter of finding something that’s actually any good. If you start to think about how many blogs and web sites go live every day, you wonder if all of it is bogus. Certainly, there is the common professor adage today that if you want decent information, the only good source is still Less