Thursday, March 22, 2007

Making the Most of Internet Sites

Most of us have access to a vast network of information known as the internet. Most of this information is manifested in the form of web sites. When you first log onto the internet, it would appear that you can’t really take advantage of this information unless you know where to look. But using various search engine tools, you can find the internet sties that are the most useful to you. Once you have found a few that you know you can trust, you will probably end up visiting certain sites every time you log on, and creating a sort of routine of sites you visit.

First, you will almost certainly want a site to use as a source of news. All of the largest TV news networks also offer online web sites that you can use to stay in the know even when you don’t have the TV on. One of the most popular internet news sites is cnn.com. stories are posted as they break, so every time you visit it you will be able to read exactly what is on TV. If you prefer some other news source instead of this one, you can do a quick search to find out where their home on the internet is. You will find that it is worthwhile to have a news site that you can trust and return to every day.

If you want to use the internet to learn and research, you will find that there are an equal amount of sites that exist for the purpose of informing people. One of these is the collaborative project located at wikipedia.org. You can find extensive information on whatever subject you are looking for. The interesting thing about the wikipedia is that it is run completely by the readers of the site. Every article on there is open to be edited by anyone, so when you read something you know you have the most extensive collection of knowledge of any source.

Besides using the internet to keep up to date on the news and do research, you can also use it extensively for entertainment purposes. There are many site operated by humorists or writers who post daily writings about events that have happened to them in the last 24 hours. You can read about some truly interesting people, and be vastly entertained by what goes on with them.

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