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Information formats

RSS Feeds
RSS (Rich Site Summary) feeds like BBC news feeds is type of web feed that allows access to a updated online content, in BBC news case it's keeping RSS feed updated to show the subscribers to the feed update to the latest news. The accessibility of a RSS feed site like the BBC news RSS feed is that it's the use you just have to click the link to the news headline and it would take you to the news web page. Also RSS feeds are very easy to update, for example the the BBC can keep to update on their RSS feed with the latest news stories to give information to the public who subscribe to the site or who just want to keep up with the news.

Blogs 
The purpose of writing blogs could be promotion of a product or service, awareness about social issues, information sharing about any subject or purely passion for writing. The accessibility of  blogs is that it can be written by anyone and anyone can write one like site like blogger. And also anything can be written on it, so blogging can have unlimited supply of information.

Podcats
 Podcasting refers to the creation and regular distribution  of podcasts through the Internet. Podcasts, which can include audio, video, PDF, and ePub files, can be subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device. The accessibility of a podcast is that it is an audio form of information so that people that are visually impaired can use this source of information with ease. 


Information styles 

Text
Text can be written in different character sets e.g. Western, Cyrillic, Arabic, etc.

Graphic image
A graphic image is a visual source of information, for example a logo, photograph and a diagram.

Audio
Audio refers to any recorded sound

 Classification 

Sensitive
This is information that is clearly shouldn't be in the public domain e.g. Social security number and bank details.

Non-sensitive
This is information that clearly should be in the public domain such as the addresses of a head office or the name of a doctor responsible for a practice.

Classified
This is private information that is to be kept private. This is a higher degree of restriction than sensitive information and implies a degree of professional conduct on behalf of the recipient. 

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