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The Internet has the amazing ability to lead a reader off-track. There is so much interesting information out there, and new types of media, that it is easy to get side tracked.

Journalism.co.uk has an amazing array of articles about journalism and how-to options for Internet users. The articles are also well researched with a lot of quotes and examples thrown in… hence the ability to get side tracked.

As an example, in this article at http://www.journalism.co.uk/5/articles/532452.php written by Laura Oliver, she made a reference in a link saying ‘such as Fred’. There was no explanation as to who Fred was… and following the link led to a highly amusing vlog. (http://uk.youtube.com/fred) Fred is a good example of a random blogger who has caught the public’s interest.

Links are turning into the new references. Bloggers don’t need to explain their sentences – they can just pop in a link and the user can check it for themselves.

This article at http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/532530.php by Judith Townend quoted Caroline Little. Townend also made use of multimedia and put the whole speech in for people to listen to.

Multimedia also allows people to add credibility to their articles. A lot of information on the Internet is questionable and needs to be verified. But a lot of information is also true – and links and multimedia allow people to add easy credibility to their articles.