NCT Blogg 5

Task 1
Answer these questions without using google or wikipedia! Try some different sources. Write a post in your blog with the answers, and include the source of the information. How do you know that the place you got the answer is accurate?

1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?
Riomel Lamores http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,2078842,00.htm

2. Who invented the paper clip?
Johan Vaaler 1899.
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/287063
Samuel B. Fay in 1867
http://www.officemuseum.com/paper_clips.htm

3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?
The virus gets its name from a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it was first recognized.
http://ebola.emedtv.com/ebola-virus/from-what-place-did-the-ebola-virus-get-its-name.html
4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?
1960 Chile earthquake
http://www.extremescience.com/GreatestEarthquake.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7311945.stm

5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?
1073,741,824
http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/tanya/hwtute/How_to_measure_data/measure.htm

6. Who is the creator of email?
Ray Tomlinson 1972
http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html


7. What is the storm worm, and how many computers are infected by it?
Computer Virus
Although it's most commonly called a worm, Storm is really more: a worm, a Trojan horse and a bot all rolled into one. It's also the most successful example we have of a new breed of worm, and I've seen estimates that between 1 million and 50 million computers have been infected worldwide.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/10/the_storm_worm.html


8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of Australia directly, what is the most efficient way?
In writing
http://www.aph.gov.au/contact/index.htm

9. Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School of Arts) a member of?
Black Assassins
http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm

10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words?
Transition on the Web becoming more user friendly

Task 2
How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
A Mirror page is also called an entrance page, or information page. Generally what it means is a web page that is specifically created containing more relevant keywords in a single page in order to rank higher on the "spider" search engines.
http://www.infolink.bz/html/mirror-pages.html
Keywords play a huge part in increasing your search engine ranking. You have to use specific keywords that you know your target audience will be searching for.
http://www.ewebmarketing.com.au/seo/526_A_Basic_Guide_To_Higher_Rankings_In_Search_Engines.htm

who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?
Inbound Links, Signature Lines In Message Forums, Consistently Good Quality Content , Simple Page Titles
http://www.ewebmarketing.com.au/seo/526_A_Basic_Guide_To_Higher_Rankings_In_Search_Engines.htm
what are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?
Google, familiarity