Something that was raised in the lecture was that we would all know how to write and publish a book, by going to a publisher to get it printed and bound. However, most of us don’t even know how to write our own web page! We, the children of the digital age, wouldn’t know how to do that. Actually, two of us in our lecture could. Luckily we are learning how to create HTML pages in class this week (:

The question of validity on the internet was also discussed. This is something I often wonder about. For instance just this morning I saw a post claiming Robin Williams had committed suicide. I was skeptical about its validity at first but after finding a number of articles reporting the same thing, I accepted it as truth. I don’t know if that’s how you should determine truth but that’s what I do anyway! I suppose I also take into account the source to determine whether it’s reliable or not, because anyone these days can chuck whatever nonsense they like up on the internet for the world to see.