By Faisal Kawoosa on April 6th, 2009
Being a content generator or developer is not a big deal. You can share anything you like in any form. Be it text, audio or video you can share it with the people over Internet. The simplest way of sharing could be over a social networking and the more professionals are the websites. Somewhere, between the two extremes is the blog.
Sharing your own pictures, videos or writing a scrap to someone you know over a social networking site will most probably harm nobody. The professionally owned websites also know their business very well. The owners of these websites fully observe the conventions of publishing content. They know what to publish and what not. They also know what kind of disclaimers are to be kept for specific types of content.
With the popularity of CMS and blogging platforms, there has been a mushroom growth of bloggers and wiki type websites. This has revolutionised the usage of Internet and there are billions of words, audio files and video files that have become available to the world population. Perhaps the dream, that the inventors of Internet had seen of enabling as much information as possible became a reality only through these tools.
There is one more dimension to this great thing happening. There is no proper forum authenticating the contents of these websites. Not only for these blogs, we need to have an eye on what websites are saying and doing about. There are websites of terrorist organisations, rebel groups, anti-national and anti-social amalgams, websites of miscreants, etc. Besides there are websites spreading hatred among people on the basis of religion, nationality and other such demographic factors. Then there must be websites spreading sexist literature. I do not want to provide examples, as it needs some more web search and might annoy fellow website owners. But there are plenty of these websites available. Understood, Internet is the easy way of connecting people all over the world and it is the best way of expression. At the same time, we need to be very cautious with what is available over it.
It is high time that a content authentication or content regulatory body is constituted with presence in each country. It is not censoring the media, but we need to be responsible. Let us not spread fire, but spread knowledge and information. The content authenticating body must have specific guidelines about the subjects allowed over Internet and the authentication mechanism for the content available over a website. The body must have subject experts who would validate the contents. Only after the contents are validated, the website would go public. Each website would be given a logo or some mark certifying that the content is authentic or if we are able to make the Internet secure, no browser or ISP would allow websites without such authentication. Otherwise we are letting Internet spread whatever comes to mind of anybody and everybody. Let everybody enjoy the freedom of expression but express responsibly. Otherwise wrong information could be the source of knowledge for our youngsters. And you all will agree, wrong information is no information. It is dangerous than uninformed.
Related Websites -
SEO Practices for Having High Quality Content When looking over the mistakes made by newcomers to the WWW internet marketing world, one of them is to assume website content means nothing more than keyword stuffed text. As we all know & appreciate the importance of using the correct keywords, and we all want to get them...... -
Some Handy Tips for Website Optimization This is a guest post! If you want to write for us, Contact using the Contact Me form. This article is meant to be for those, who are controlling websites and databases over the Internet. These people may face different kinds of issues about their websites. Often, their best efforts...... -
What is the Difference Between Blogging and Content Writing? Sometimes it seems like articles and blogs are so similar to one another in content that it can be difficult to tell what the difference is between these two types of written media. Blogs tend to have more leeway, and follow a completely different structure because they can be short...... -
Web Site Design And System: Staking The Island Inside An Sea Of Data If it were that easy then a internet is sure to have a great deal more websites up now than it already does. The strategy for one's website ought to be approached much being a chess game. Know how to position your pieces in a way to attain maximum benefit....... -
Best Search Engine Optimization Secrets Perhaps you think that search engine optimization is a very difficult task. You probably think that unless you hire an expert, you cannot achieve high page ranking. Actually, there are some secrets in SEO to get good ranking and stay on top. Read this article to find out some tips......
