I found to sources through Storify that relate to what I have been discussing about the robotics industry and how it relates to humans. The first has a lot to do with the specific topic of my blog thus far, robots taking jobs.
A man named Rob Marsh posted about robots being already here and starting to take jobs.
Credibility: He is a small business logo maker, an entrepreneur, and a business strategist.
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah.
Network: It doesn't seem that he has a large robotics community as a network. He is an individual thinker.
Content: His info is more based upon his own, individual thought, along with his skills and knowledge in the field of business.
Contextual Updates: He does not post often about this topic. He just happened to create a page about what he thinks about the subject.
Age: August of 2008
Reliability: This source is not very reliable for the actual robots industry.
I liked this post because this guy brings a new angle to my story. He discussed this issue in a business related sense, rather than the typical engineering/robotics sense.
The second source that I found is about an issue that occurred recently at a factory in Germany where a robot killed a human worker. I thought it would be interesting to check this out as well.
Credibility: Similar to the previous social media post, this retweeted article, from Carmen Santiago, @PhunkyFresh, does not have much reliability or credibility. It seems that she just retweeted a post about the killing that occurred.
Location: It doesn't look like there is a location shown anywhere.
Network: She is not a very followed or popular tweeter. There is practically no one that has any relevance to the issue.
Content: She is just someone who thought that this issue was interesting, and so he tweeted about it. None of his other posts relate to this issue.
Contextual Updates: Again, there isn't much else posted from her that has anything to do with the topic.
Age: December of 2011.
Reliability: Not reliable.
I used this source because I think it is interesting to get a general public view of the issue along side with the professionalism of the robotics and engineering professionals that have to do with the issue.
While it is certainly interesting to find a "general public view" on an issue, the assignment did ask you to present two sources that you found most useful. Based on the fact that the second source was decided "unreliable," it was not a very useful source.
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