Thursday, November 29, 2007 - Different Types of websites :

This post is "abit" late... but as the saying goes "better late then never"

In this week's lesson, we covered on the 3 different types of internet resources available. Those 3 are :- Organisation, Personal and Subject-based websites.

So you might wonder what has this gotta do with researching for information online. Well, it plays a big part when reasearching online. If you can categorize the websites found into the 3 different categorize, you will know the characteristics of each website. From the characteristics, we can sub-consciencely categorize them into reliable, non-reliable and quite reliable webs.

Apart from the sub-conscience thinking of whether the websites are reliable, there are several major differences between the 3 types of websites. In simple terms;

- Organisation websites usually promote their organization and products and is usually professionally done. They also provide links to other websites.

- Personal websites are like blogs, information posted there are mostly about topics the poster is interested in. It also contains information about the poster. However information posted there might not be reliable as it might be bias or inaccurate.

-Subject-Based websites are websites like wikipedia, where it contains definitions of a certain topic, or topics. It has a focus on a subject.

What is interesting about subject-based websites is, it can be a mix of organisation websites as well as personal websites. Lets say Wikipedia for example. Information posted up there are by the community, making it also classifiable as personal website. However wikipedia is a community organisation. Now this really complicate things up. 0_0

In this week, i also picked a research topic for my assignment. and the topic is......

Discuss the usage of 2-Factor Authentication in the banking industry.

and yes it might seem no link to what i am studying, but its an interesting topic cause i use 2-Factor Authentication too..

Fats RANTS 5:35 PM