Purposes of Internet Resources(Week 4)

On the lab of week 4, we had to identify the purposes of websites and compare them. It isn't easy because not every topic that we searched on has websites of different purposes and type of resources. Nevertheless, I managed to find 4 websites of similar resources but different purposes and here they are...

• Introduction to RSS
  http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/
  Resource Type: Electronic Magazines/Journals
  Purpose: Information
  Reason:
  This article provides information on how RSS looks like and what is it all about.
  
• Why use RSS
  http://computer.1howto.com/other/Why-Use-RSS.html
  Resource Type: Electronic Magazines/Journals
  Purpose: Advocacy
  Reason:
  It tells the reasons on why we should use RSS and how it is used in the market. It stresses on the advantages of using RSS and why every web services should use it.
  
• RSS Specifications
  http://www.rss-specifications.com/
  Resource Type: Electronic Magazines/Journals
  Purpose: Information
  Reason:
  This site provides RSS feeds for the articles which are all about RSS.
  
• Best uses of RSS
  http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art46361.asp
  Resource Type: Electronic Magazines/Journals
  Purpose: Information
  Reason:
  In this article, the author tells about how are some of the web services which RSS could be implemented. It also provides information on how Active Server Pages(ASP) can be used together with RSS onto the web services he mentioned.

Deciding the purpose of the website of the resource helps me to know what kind of information I am getting. Through this, I can also know how to manipulate the contents from my research better.