[LIS-Forum] Re: Why INTERNET

[Sukhdev Singh]

Yes the report "Leap of faith: using the Internet despite the dangers" as
  argued by me in my earlier post on it - [Last Month - LIS-FORUM -
 http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2005-October/002963.html
 ] talks about more and more people using Internet despite some distrust.

However, now I am arguing that INTERNET is must for LIS Professionals
because some Recorded Knowledge now exists as "Online Only". How  can
this portion of knowledge be ignored? Uses of Internet is a different
story.

--Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in


> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:01:15 +0530 (IST)
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> It's pleasure to read the write up posted by Mr Sukhdev Singh on "Why
> Internet'. It's useful.
> I got a survey report from Internet which may be useful in thus context.
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> Leap of faith: using the Internet despite the dangers
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> Results of a national survey of Internet users for Consumer Reports
> WebWatch
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>  <http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/> Among the latest findings from the
> Consumer Reports Web Watch poll:
>
> *        Nine out of 10 U.S. Internet users over 18 have made changes to
> their behavior due to fear of identity theft.
> *        The percentage of adults saying they get most of their news from
> the Internet has doubled, going from 5 percent in 2002 to 11 percent in
> the most recent survey.
> *        Blogs have won some readers but not much trust. A total of 57
> percent distrust what blogs report, with 21 percent saying blogs are
> never or almost never accurate.
> *        The majority of respondents (56 percent) has still not heard of
> the common practice of search engines being paid fees to list some sites
> more prominently than others in search results.
>
> View abstract
> <http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/dynamic/web-credibility-reports-princet
> on.cfm>
> View report <http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/pdfs/princeton.pdf>
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>
> P K Upadhyay
> NIC Library
>