HOW DOES THIS SITE RATE?

The reviews are based on 5 criterion as follows:

AUTHORITY
                          Is it clear who is responsible for the contents of the page?
                          Are the qualifications or credentials given?
                          Is there a way of verifying the legitimacy of this individual?

 ACCURACY
                          Are the sources for any factual information clearly listed so they can be verified in another source?
                          Are there any grammatical, spelling, and typographical errors? 

OBJECTIVITY
                          Are the person's biases clearly stated?
                          If there is advertisements with in the site, are they separate from the informational content? 

CURRENCY
                          Are there dates on the page (When the page was written, copyrighted, first published, or last revised)?
                          Has the information been revised?

COVERAGE
                          Is there an indication that the page has been completed, and is not still under construction?

MY REVIEW
1. AUTHORITY:  Discovery Communications is responsible for this web site. This author can be verified of lefitimacy.
                             The afiliated group is the Discovery Channel.

2. ACCURACY:    This site has many links to a variety of information supporting the given topics.  The site has
                               accurate basic grammar and spelling.

3. OBJECTIVITY: This site has all objectives are not clearly stated and there are advertisements in this site. The advertisements are
                               specifically related to this site and display bias.  

4. CURRENCY:    This site is copyrighted 1999 and there is no evidence that the site has been updated.

5. COVERAGE:     This site is complete and explore the topic of chaos and fractals as music.

This evaluation technique used is found at Evaluation Web Resources, Evaluating Internet Resources, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources.

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