.Reflection for Lesson 4
? 10:37 PM, Monday, May 12, 2008
Lecture 3 taught us about the purposes of internet resources and also compare the differences of these purposes. This is something new to me...Anyway, let me conclude what I have learnt in this lecture.
Purposes of internet resources:
- information: provide facts
- advocacy: influence public opinion
- business/marketing:promote product or service
- news: provide information on current events
- personal: provide personal information
- entertainment:provide enjoyment
Explainations and examples of each purposes were given. In particular, advocacy website made me a bit depressed and worried for the readers especially the younger groups who can be easily influenced. I guess it's important for us to stay neutral and be open-minded.
During this lesson, I also have a better idea about Site Feed. A site feed is a standard for receiving updates from your friends' website. It makes reviewing a large amount of website in a very short time because not everything on the website are loaded. This means, you won't get to see the design or layout of your friend's website(only white and black background). But all the updated information are available on the website. Actually RSS, Atom, XML all work in the same way and called a "site feed".
