Nicola Tesla: The Worlds Most Popular Unknown Inventor.
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Nicola Tesla: The Worlds Most Popular Unknown Inventor.

By: J. Chord

Nicola Tesla may be everybody's favorite mad scientist. He was known for his battle with inner demons, charisma, sheer genius, and his dependence on finacial backers.
But most of all, he altered civilization for all time with electric power . Think of this: how many really fundamental aspects of civilization there are: Money This list is not large. The inventors of most of these are unknown. But one single man is responsible for two of them: Radio and Power distribution.

Respect him for the electric generator and florescent lights. A statue on Goat Island, at Niagara Falls, is a public reminder of the man and his era.
It is true that the Supreme Court, of the USA made a final judgement that Nikola Tesla did, in fact invent radio. This decision came too late to be of any practical use to Tesla, and most people still think Marconi invented radio. It is true, that Marconi made the first long distance transmission, it is simply because he invented a superior antenna, not the underlying radio technology. In fact, Tesla had already showed the radio control of automated submarines to the military in New York Harbor.
There are lots of web sites with information about Tesla, and many sources about this fascinating man.
But how do you find the best information about Tesla. The best solutions involve a voodoo recipe of a few things: Go to the library. This is what you had to do in the 'olden' days: before the web .
Yet when you begin your quest at a library, you will find that much of the information on Tesla is available on a computer, very likely the same internet that you have access to at your home.
There are at least two kinds of web resources that you will see over and over again: the first kind is a search engine, Your friends, the old standards like Yahoo Search! or newer ones like Quaero, Baidu , ChaCha or a directory of existing sites: like DMOZ, which use humans working as librarians to pour over the web sites, find the ones dealing with Tesla and sort them for you.
There are some difficulties using these recipes: Google's ranking algorithm for Tesla is highly impacted by the internet business of SEO (search engine optimization) which attempts take advantage of Google's hueristics to increase a web site's ranking and hence make it seem more important than it really is. This makes it harder to find the real good sources for Tesla. SEO is big business for sites that make money on the web, because search engines can make or break a web site. There are ethical and unethical people useing these techniques who have not the slightest interest in Tesla. In fact, any search engine using computer algorithms to analyse text will completely lose nuances in language like, searching for 'information about Tesla' may get you tons of listings about 'go back to Tesla school' . How many times will you have to dig down to the 21st page of the web search to find something really useful about Tesla? More times than you wish!
One alternative, A directory organized by humans like DMOZ will not have that kind of lanugage problem, but the editors of those directories are volunteers, with limited time and have to obey some odd rules about what constitutes an acceptable web site: some types of information rich sites on Tesla can't even get in. In fact, the decisions about what is good is under in the hands of a very few people with rather rigid rules: a junior editor often has a decision overturned by a higher ranking editor sometimes, for the most obscure reasons. They are well meaning, but can they really speak to be knowledgeable about all they do? The websites that are accepted may have to wait for weeks to get in , if ever. And the categories are limited, with no place to put new concepts. It may take months for a category to be approved: if at all.
A very successful alternative has been the wikipedia, where everyone can update the listing: and surprisingly, wikipedia has a very good reputation of being authoritative, precise, informative and, well, generally useful.
Now, in September 2008, there is a new challenger in web site ranking directories that really does attempt to answer the question of which site is best, or at least as they put it: "which site has the most vava-voom!" That new site is http://vava.vu/ , a web domain out of the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu. Vava.vu will let any web site be entered to be rated by the general public and given the tag Tesla. For example: http://vava.vu/?Tag=Tesla -- will get you started! The evaluation is simple: a web site about Tesla has a rank and a 'statistical strength' associated with it: When someone visits vava.vu, those sites with weaker strength are put side by side, and it is up to the visitor to choose which site of the two is more useful. When enough votes are cast, the visitor will see the real top ten sites about Tesla ,or any category: These sites are the ones that you, the public has judged. The idea is fair in that a visitor only can compare two sites at a time: one will win and one will not. A visitor can't give a yea or nay to one site by itself because that would skew the results. Some sites will consistantly win out over other sites.
So if you are interested in Tesla , you can go find the answers in several areas: Locally in the library, from friends, or on the internet at your favorite search engine, a directory like DMOZ or wikipedia. Or with the new alternative on the block: http://vava.vu/?Tag=Tesla

Article Source: http://articlenexus.com

J. Chord at vava.vu is fascinated by the internet seemingly forever. A pioneer in networking of computers he now follows the difficulties people have in using the information that is so near, yet so far.

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