Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Practical 4 & 5 - Reflections

Briefly reflect on lessons learnt from this practical:
a. What benefits do you get when using different search facilities to search for resources related to your topic?
b. How do you feel about using site feeds in your blog? Would you use this in future?


A) There are different results retrieved with different search facilities. All of it helps to substantiate my topic's resources from different areas. For e.g, Google helps me search for more article and journalistic-based resources, while directories show news articles related to my topic, and databases offer statistics and professional facts about my topic. Every facility has 

B) I actually feel that it depends on the blog/site you own and the relevance of another site you are feeding to your own site. It is convenient, no-doubt, but it only shows the live content that is being updated on the linked site. I feel that doesn't give the experience of the other website (e.g layout, design, graphics, colours). So I probably would not use it in the future.

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