Practical 7

Which criteria did you use to evaluate Stomp.com?

i have used the following criteria : Accuracy, Purpose and Coverage.

For Accuracy, I find that it is accurate in certain details. For example videos is a proof of accuracy, because the event occur and stamp prove its evidences. But for what's written, i think that it is not accurate because of how the person sees the situation. Because they write what they feel about the situation and did not clarify the situation, this is where accuracy has its downfall.

For Purpose, STOMP main purpose is actually to "connect, engage and interact with Singaporeans in a style and approach that is different from conventional news websites." - This is what is written in STOMP "About Us" page.

It also stated that STOMP "have unparalleled reach into the hearts of Singaporeans and the resources to tailor-make approaches to maximise your brand."

From this perspective points, i can understand that STOMP creates this page for us citizen to share our daily news about within Singapore. Therefore, the purpose of this website is clearly correct. But of how people go around interpreting their points of view is wrong and abusive of insults hurled at the event, i think the website has become more of a laughing stock rather then a great website to view for everyday news.

For Coverage, STOMP has other links that is quite good for example, National Library Board and Speak Good English Movement.

The website also have other links like "Singapore Seen", “Talkback” and “Star Blog”.

The coverage of STOMP is quite good because of all these links, they have covered alot of interesting topics to look at.

Why did you choose these criteria? What lessons have you learnt from this activity?

I've chose these criteria because they are the fundamentals of evaluating a website. I also have understood these criteria before i evaluated other websites.

What i have learn is that we are ought to be more aware of the accuracy, purpose and coverage of the websites.

So with all I've written, we will be more protected from irrelevant information posted and question ourselves before agreeing to the posted that we've just read on the internet.