Web 2.0 is really a great innovation of man. Information flood over the web and it is up to the researcher to sift truly valuable information. There are so many book marking social networks that we can use to gauge our research. Digg is a very powerful network; delicious, reddit, technorati and stumbleupon are a few of those any researcher would love to know and surf.

But do you know which webpage, site or information is reliable in the web? Here are some criteria to base in evaluating certain webpage or website information.

Content- In evaluating the website’s content, you try to assess the intent of the content; the kind of writing used like was it scholarly, poetic or satiric; is the author identified? Does the author have a reliable reputation? Does it have a current edition? These are just a few of the many questions that you should ask yourself before believing anything you read in the web. The next thing you should assess is the websites copyright, continuity and context.

Somebody is responsible for the making of the document, image, graphic, sound and all these matters fall under copyright rule. Internet users should respect copyright. Citation is also another way to credit the maker and author of the article used as reference in the making of the information and also to provide further research for the researcher. Another thing, will the website be able to provide credible information no and on the following days? That is what we call continuity.

The Web 2.0 is an avenue for information, linking and networking and me and you as users should be smart enough in evaluating true from false information found in the web. Digg’s popular pages are having a very transcendental effect on the internet web but still as user we should know how to evaluate the materials that we encountered and find in the web.

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