Monday, November 8, 2010

What I've learnt in EIR Practical 3

In this practical thus far, I have learnt that there are many forms of internet resources. Some of them are Blogs & Wikis, Online Forums, Newsgroups, Mailing/ discussion lists, and Full-text documents. Moreover, they exist for a different purpose. ie. Information, Advocacy, Business/Marketing, News, Personal, Entertainment.

I have also learnt that the term “Wiki” also refers to the collaborative software (wiki engine) that supports the operation of such a website and that "wiki” is a short version of the Hawaiian term "wiki wiki", meaning "quick" or "fast". It is also an interesting fact that "Wiki" is sometimes intrepreted as “What I know is”.

I have also learnt that using keywords, wildcards, Boolean operators and phrase-searching further refines my search. These search functions helps make a search more efficient!

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