Do your own research

There are a great many "points" of having each individual do research that others have already done.

The first point is that while providing those links you demand is great and certainly helpful if they lead to reliable sources they are soon lost in the maze of messages never to be seen again unless there is a system in place to preserve them and even such great resources as your browsers bookmarking soon turns into a mishmash of bookmarks that it takes more time to find them than one often has. I have several bookmarking systems and pretty soon they have so many bookmarks that I can't begin to find the one I want. Backflips is just one of them. Shrink my link is another great bookmarking system that I use a lot because it lets me know how many people click on any given bookmark and when they clicked on it.

But it too now has so many links that it takes a lot of time to go through them and cull out the information I want at any given time. Here is another great online resource for bookmarking that I have but it too has the same problem. So much valuable information that it is hard to find what one is looking for.

That's called "information overload" and we are all plagued with it these days. Then there is the
problem of computer crashes. Overload your memory and your computer starts crashing. Hard drive crashes and you have to put in a new drive and even the most expensive backup systems fail. You can back up your hard drive and recover as long as it is recovered to the same hard
drive but if it is a different or new hard drive and you had better have a really great backup which costs a lot of money to maintain.

The next point is that one should never trust research done by someone else. Never! They make one little mistake, leave out one little word or misinterpretate one word, sentence or phrase and you get shot out of the saddle. I always tell my students that they should never believe one word I say but rather must go look it up for themselves so that they have their own first hand knowledge. Never, never trust someone else's so-called research. telling a judge that "Richard Cornforth says" or "Bill Bauer says" is about like telling him "Confucious says". (LOL)

Links are important to the "popularity" of this or any other forum or website but only if they are done right and most are worthless in terms of search engine popularity which is important to finding new members for this group. That's a whole different ball game but to make a long story short, a link that tells us nothing also tells the search engines nothing so never gets referenced by them. Research links should be imbedded into the body of the message and not at the end of
a message where they just look like a footnote or something. They should carry meaninngful anchor text and lead to something relevant to the core text of the message. We can't really do that here because the ability to do so has been either limited or denied by Scotsman and I
don't have the authority to change that. As a result, we are not getting the search engine popularity we really need to get more posters and more attendees to Richard's seminars. That's also why I sometimes post to my blog and have it emailed into this forum so links show up and get indexed. But that is a whole different topic.

Those RSS links are important to the popularity of this forum too. Everyone needs to get and use a good RSS feed reader such as AMPHETADESK or other feed reader and subscribe to this forum via it's RSS feed. but if you don't want to get and install your own RSS feed reader then you can use your and customize that to pick up the RSS feed for this forum. Doing so will help you keep your research links and help the popularity of this forum as well.

The whole point is that everyone needs to do their own research too and not rely on what others have to say. They might be and often are wrong in what they say or what they believe.


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