2006-11-02 These comments were of the website in March 2006. Compare with the website of Nov 1, 2006 which is now much improved.
Always test out the resources available. In the case of the state website, it wasn’t functional on March 24, 2006
The links to other websites are colored blue (standard indicator of hot link or html) but the links themselves were dead; that is, it is only a “hardcopy” or printed appearance. The links were not active and would not lead the Internet (virtual) reader anywhere.
Website does not indicate all the links that connect to a pdf (Adobe Acrobat) or doc (MS Word) or other non-browser (html) format. The pandemic plan was a pdf file, which requires a separate software for the user to know how to locate, download, and install properly. There isn’t anyway to monitor changes to the webpage through a syndicated (RSS) feed. There is no date as to when the site was last updated.
webpage retrieved November 2006
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interesting. site wasn’t released until 3/29/06?
The site was certainly “live” or public by the time I saw it, prior to the 29th. Considering that this is the 21st century and the importance of the topic (public health) the site should have been ready when uploaded. The “under construction” might be a temporary fix but the use of dummy links seems terribly rude.
On the other hand, the state government website for the agency responsible for preparedness and disaster response is still listed as a dot com instead of a dot gov. One of the standards used to determine legitimacy of information sources is that domain name. One would hope this doesn’t indicate the importance the Governor of Alaska places on this agency’s purpose.