Quick Web Quiz - Week 10

1. What is an RSS link?

RSS Stands for ‘Rich Sites Summary’ this feature enables the audience to share information of common interest.

2. Name three BBC journalists whose blog sites cover economics, arts and sport.

Robert Peston writes about economics.
Derek (Robbo) Robson write his blog about sports.
Pauline McLean writes about art.

3. Which social networking sites have recently signed up to an EU code of practice on child safety?

They include Facebook, Bebo and Myspace. There are 17 signed up in total.

4. Which campaign’s successful use of social networking has won it PR Week’s campaign of the year award?

Ikea

5. What is a podcast?

A pre-recorded file available to download from the internet. Usually a snippet of a radio show previously broadcast.

6. Define ‘Twitter’ in no more than 140 characters.

‘A short online messaging service enabling people to share what they are up to’.

7. What four letter word could you use to describe how most web users read copy online?

‘Scan’ Readers are said to scan the page in an ‘S’ shaped curve.

8. What is social bookmarking?

It is using or sharing online web content online, for specific issues.

9. Name five of the most popular sites.

Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, Digg and Myspace.

10. What is Plain English? Describe in no more than 50 words.

A campaign to stop overcomplicating sentences and terms in documents. To make the language used in publications as simple to understand as possible. No gobbledygook!

11. Find an original example of a sentence in gobbledygook. Then transform using the principles of Plain English.

Before: High-quality learning environments are a necessary precondition for facilitation and enhancement of the ongoing learning process.

After: Children need good schools if they are to learn properly.

12. Name recent international news stories ‘broken’ by twitter users.

Skipal air crash,
Hudson river plane crash.