Wikipedia.org

Advantages: Quite up to date on information
Disadvantages: The odd chance of vandalism

In the wide world of the internet once every blue moon something turns up every so often that becomes the “in” thing. Quick examples of this are Youtube, Google, Myspace, Digitalspy. Overnight seemingly these things turn up, and before you know it everyone is using them. And for some people these sites are the first and last place to look. Wikipedia has become one of these sites. In 2001 Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger brought Wikipedia an online encyclopaedia ...
...internet meant that people were searching for information from the internet alone, rather than visiting libraries. This thirst for knowledge gave Wales and Sanger the idea for Wikipedia. Because in this big wide world information changes on a daily basis, Wikipedia was designed so that it could be updated at the drop of a hat; a voluntarily run website Wikipedia relies on its users to keep the site fresh and up to date. So say your doing some research ... Read review

Advantages: Extensive site with a little about lots and lots
Disadvantages: Detail varies greatly depending on the item

I'm an impatient little bunny at times, and sometimes I want to know stuff right now, not in a week or next month or sometime in the future. Today the big question on my mind was who the Carver in Nip/Tuck is since I've not seen all of the 3rd series yet, so in a moment of spoiler-inducing-madness I googled a question to that effect, and was immediately met with dozens of sites that could tell me. The first one I clicked on was Wikipedia because ...
...Wikipedia is a free, online encyclopaedia that is available in a ridiculous number of languages though the pages are not direct translations of each other, and some languages offer many more topics than others. The English language site contains English and Australian entries but the vast majority of them are American. The unique feature of Wikipedia is that anyone can write and edit entries, and it appears to be almost entirely community driven ... Read review

Advantages: Free, Constantly Updated
Disadvantages: Some Information Not Yet Added

Wikipedia is a free Online Encyclopaedia that I first stumbled across about a year ago whilst researching an article I was writing on the languages and dialects of Europe. I use Google as my everyday Internet search engine and as I entered various words and phrases I found myself taken to a specific article within the Wikipedia database time and time again. I found that the majority of the articles were incredibly informative but most importantly ...
...very easy to understand. Within the text of each article you will regularly come across specific words which are in bold text and I quickly discovered that these were hyperlinks to related articles in Wikipedia so once you have found your first article of relevance it is then incredibly easy to jump around to another relevant page and another. I quickly became very impressed with Wikipedia to the point where I found myself searching Google for ... Read review

Advantages: Tonnes of information, easy to use
Disadvantages: Not something you should trust entirely

The Internet is a wonderful thing. It is a source of information, entertainment and general means of procrastination for millions of users across the globe. I’ve been quite fortunate in that given my age, (and access to certain pieces of technology) I’ve seen the Internet, (at least the Internet as we know it today) grow and have seen several revolutionary products, ideas and website rise (and occasionally fall). You could spend your entire lifetime ...
...manage to see an extremely small proportion of what it actually has to offer. Every so often though, a website comes along that sucks in virtually everyone who encounters it and even those who perhaps have never used the Internet before. Google is a classic example, so much so that a significant proportion of the population will now say “Go Google it”, rather than ‘use a search engine’. A more recent example, which is still in its infancy, but has ... Read review

Advantages: Over 2m articles, regularly checked for vandalism
Disadvantages: Not 100% reliable

The Ultimate Font of Useless Knowledge As a history student, Wikipedia is a very useful tool. It allows me to research basic facts about areas of history I have never read about before, as well as providing links to more 'reliable' sources for greater depth. That said, Wikipedia is not and in my opinion should not be allowed to be used as a citation in an essay, for reasons I am going to explain. What is it? Wikipedia is a website ...
...name is a compound of the two ideals behind the website. A 'wiki' is a method of allowing users to easily edit and update a website. The 'pedia' is derived from what Wikipedia aims to be - an online encyclopaedia. How comprehensive is it? It is perhaps the most comprehensive resource tool on the internet. It has over two million English articles, and anything up to 700000 of these are replicated in every other language in the world. ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to use interface, no cost, specific answers to specific questions.
Disadvantages: Need a yahoo ID. Some idiotic replies. Answers only as good as question.

.... However, much like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire's "Ask the Audience", the consensus is usually correct. All in all I like Yahoo Answers and use it a lot. It is a lazy way of accessing an online encyclopaedia, in which real people answer your questions. And, it often yields answers more reputable resources such as Wikipedia.org would not find. Okay, so you get the odd idiot but on the whole its a site were members help each other so when they need help themselves, that help is forthcoming. A site you will find yourself visiting again and again.... Read review

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Advantages: Free, customisable, easy to use.
Disadvantages: Slow at times, hard to customise without a bit of tech knowledge, no criteria for browsing.

...is down to personal preference. Some like it, others can't understand it. However, if you fancy having a go at blogging, you can do much worse than host it on Blogger. For further information on blogs and blogging, try the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Some interesting blogs: http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/ http://postsecret.blogspot.com/... Read review

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Advantages: On the face of it money for nothing
Disadvantages: I Am Convinced This Is A Ponzi Scheme - Beware!

...there is money rolling about in the scheme from those that have joined, clicked a few links and then disappeared. There will also be money freed by those who in the end give up hope of ever seeing their cash and disappear quietly (that's me). The only 'real' income generation comes from selling Premium membership and referrals. Given that there seem to be many who opted for premium membership at $59 per annum and many who admit to paying $459 for 500 referrals it must be this money that is being used to pay members. Some claim the site has as many as 3,000,000 members so that is a lot of income! For those familiar with Ponzi schemes (if you are not familiar with the term try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzischeme) I would suggest that Bux.to has all the hallmarks of such a scheme there simply must be real headline payments to encourage... Read review

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