First Reflection

E-shopping Activity

I think that the E-shopping activity on Internet is quite interesting as we got to imagine having $500 to go on the shopping spree online, which let us choose what we want. Tons of items drifted into my mind but I only choose the items that I wanted most, an Ipod Touch as it serves many uses.

Why do you think there is a need for researchers to know the different purposes of websites?

It is important for researcher to know the different purposes of websites because every website contain different content. Some websites are Blogs and Wikis, online forums, newgroups, mailing, full-texts documents, databases, electronic journals and magazines, multimedia sources, current awareness and alerting services, podcasting, FTP archives and WWW sites. Different websites provides us with different subject. Therefore it is important that researchers know the different purposes of websites so they will not get the wrong informations.

One website I often visit.

One website I often visit is www.pspiso.com, an online forum. There are many discussion topic such as general chat, sports, news. Discussions and news related to Game Consoles. We also can share our psp games online, applications, saves, cheats and game manual. Computer related stuff are also included such as games and software. We can share our movies and music too. There are also people who post threads to request for games and other stuffs on this website. I think that this is a very good website because alot of games related stuff are here.

Comparing my website site I had used to compare with an advocacy website

I have chosen the website http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/. It is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.

The first difference is www.apple.com.sg is an business and marketing website while www.greenpeace.org is an advocacy website. The second difference is apple.com.sg is created to promotee their products for sale while greenpeace.org is created to influence public opinion and attempt to increase memberships in the organisation. The last difference is apple.com.sg offer online catalogues, information about the company and offer online services while greenpeace.org actively compaign for people to give support to the issue selected.

The most meaningful lesson I have learnt from practical 1 and 2.

The most meaningful lesson I have learnt from practical 1 and 2 are there are many different kind of website and we need to identify the purpose of the website we visit before getting the information from there. This could prevent me from getting wrong information. Some purposes are for information, advocacy, business and marketing, news, personal and entertainment. Identifying the purposes will be help us effectively in getting to our destination website.

Comments on two of my classmate's blog post.

Melvin Tan : His blog posts are short and sweet, and having sufficient reason why he wanted to buy those items if he have $500.

Euginn Koh: His blog post is interesting, he have quite a number of similar hobbies as me.