The New Form of Media Publish
No matter it is online or the printed version of document, it always full with words. The reader like us does not really like to spend time read words by words just to understand one or two main meaning in one sentence.Also, is it quite difficult for writer to put what we want to say in a sentence such as motion or describing an atmosphere of things around them. The easier way is to record it down, of cause, you will require a video recording device. One example will be, during a press conference, compare to record in a paper or type in down into your lap top, wouldn’t it is better if we just take out a video recording device and record the situation.
When mention about posting a video or publishing a recorded document, people always refer to YouTube. It is a free of charge video streaming ‘blog’ or ‘vlog’. YouTube was the first free video sharing website. It established on 2005, people begin to post their video to YouTube and share with the public. Currently, most people like to record their opinion and express themselves not by words but they want motion and share it with the public. However, due to YouTube is a free video website and the massive number of user in it, it has now facing a lot of problem that link with sensitivity or community. One example of issue that happen in Malaysia is that, the video “Negarakuku” by Namewee has received massive feedback from the government saying that, the content in the video offended the Malaysian Citizen. Another problem that the community found using YouTube is that, during the past, it actually allow any form of video to be uploaded to the website, this mean that, even pornography can be found in YouTube (Polly, A, Jean 2006). Nevertheless, Youtube has begin their policy and disallow pornography in their website.
Reference
Jean Armour Polly (2006) Commonsense Media Blogs. http://www.commonsensemedia.org/website-reviews/YouTube.html Viewed 8 May 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Online Document or Printed Document
Designing for online vs Print
Internet user like us, does not actually read the content in the webpage word by word, sentence by sentence. Internet users normally scan the page rather than read the entire page. They will only pick the main point from what they see on the webpage and then proceed to other webpage to obtain the information they desire (John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen 1997).
Based on Wilson, Cornwell and Heath (2003) idea, they state that, e publishing is actually more advantage than the printed version. Logically, one of the advantages is that it saves cost. Secondly, the technology advancement enable tons of creative function to the e publishing and make job much easier such as posting relevant picture in the article and managing the content in the article.
However, it is still depend on the type of document that the writer wish to compose, if the writer wish to create book, then the printed version is prefer. This is because of the number of words as well as the content in the document that require reader to spend time to read through each sentence.
Reference
Nielsen, J, 1997. How Users Read on the Web. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html Viewed 5 May 2008
Wilson, S, Cornwell, L & Heath GD 2003, Publishing newsletters on paper or online: a profile of how three chapter editors did it. Society for Technical Communication http://www.stcsig.org/usability/newsletter/0308-whyonline.html Viewed 7 May 2008
Internet user like us, does not actually read the content in the webpage word by word, sentence by sentence. Internet users normally scan the page rather than read the entire page. They will only pick the main point from what they see on the webpage and then proceed to other webpage to obtain the information they desire (John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen 1997).
Based on Wilson, Cornwell and Heath (2003) idea, they state that, e publishing is actually more advantage than the printed version. Logically, one of the advantages is that it saves cost. Secondly, the technology advancement enable tons of creative function to the e publishing and make job much easier such as posting relevant picture in the article and managing the content in the article.
However, it is still depend on the type of document that the writer wish to compose, if the writer wish to create book, then the printed version is prefer. This is because of the number of words as well as the content in the document that require reader to spend time to read through each sentence.
Reference
Nielsen, J, 1997. How Users Read on the Web. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html Viewed 5 May 2008
Wilson, S, Cornwell, L & Heath GD 2003, Publishing newsletters on paper or online: a profile of how three chapter editors did it. Society for Technical Communication http://www.stcsig.org/usability/newsletter/0308-whyonline.html Viewed 7 May 2008
The Army of BLOG
Types of blog or classification of blog
General speaking, blog can be in any type depending on what the bloger wish to put in his or her blog. Therefore, in the current trend, we can find many blog having multiple topics in it. Though, there are still some general type of blog in the internet. Below are the lists of common blog in the internet era.
1. Vlog (a video blog)
2. Linklog (links to other sites)
3.Sketchblog (portfolio or sketches)
4. Photoblog (a photo blog)
5. Moblog
During the past, text and image are the most popular blog in the internet. However, when blog activity begin to rise, there are more and more type of blog appear, some are even the mixture of blog. One good example will be the famous moblog in United Kingdom, where people take picture or video with their mobile phone and post it on blog, we classify this blogging as ‘moblog’.
“Moblogging is taking pictures and videos with your camera phone and putting them on the internet.”
Moblog.co.uk
Today, it is very difficult to classify what exactly the type of blog we are viewing. What listed above are some of the pure or core blog that are still existing today.
Blogging community
Today, many people especially the young generation, they like to expand their network as in have more internet friend to share their interest. Friendster, one of the most famous networks building blog in Malaysia. People explore the network and post comment to their for their friend to maintain and build the relationship. Moreover, in Friendster, people create a group for a common topic, and invite friend to join. In the group,they actually post and share their interest. This is one of the ways, how blogger build and maintain in the blogging community. When they are more people view their blog, the founder of the particular blog will feel more motivated to update his/her blog, so that people will often view it
According to Pipl (2008) research, Friendster have about a total of 39259 profile which taken 77.1% of the entire internet social network and the growth is about 80% each year.
Reference
Moblog:UK. 2008. What's this moblog thing all about then? http://moblog.co.uk/help.php?intro viewed 5 May 2008
Pipl 2008, Statistic http://www.pipl.com/statistics/social-networks/size-growth/?l=1142 Viewed 7 May 2008
Blog? So what?
Today’s Trend
Bloging has become one of the famous activities among the young generation in the internet today. It is all contributed from Bloger.com website which formed during 1999. During 2007, there are about 120,000 of new weblogs generated worldwide everyday (Johnson, 2007).
In the current trend, people like to write about their favorite such as artist, vehicle, sport, you name it. They will then comment on the subject they post, expressing their opinion towards it. In some cases, bloger allow the public to post their comment or in other words feedback on their opinion. This creates argument towards the topic. From here people will able understand the subject from different point of view.
The advantage of Bloging
Blog has created an opportunity to the public to voice out their opinion. According to Microsoft (2008), there are only small amounts of audience for each blog, according to their research, 40% of the total blog have less than ten visitors. Nevertheless, blog are more trendy in Korea, up 11% of blog in Korea have more than 50 visitor per week (Microsoft 2008).
Through the research by Microsoft Group (2008), they conclude that, blogging has become a social phenomenon to Asians. It is one of the internet tools that the Asian utilize it to maintain and build their social networks as well as to express themselves.
Reference
Johnson, B 2007, Blogs mark the first 10 years, Guardian News & Media Limited http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/apr/07/blogging.news Viewed 6 May 2008
Microsoft 2006 Blogging Phenomenon Sweeps Asia, Press realease http://advertising.microsoft.com/asia/NewsAndEvents/PressRelease.aspx?Adv_PressReleaseID=296 viewed 6 May 2008
Bloging has become one of the famous activities among the young generation in the internet today. It is all contributed from Bloger.com website which formed during 1999. During 2007, there are about 120,000 of new weblogs generated worldwide everyday (Johnson, 2007).
In the current trend, people like to write about their favorite such as artist, vehicle, sport, you name it. They will then comment on the subject they post, expressing their opinion towards it. In some cases, bloger allow the public to post their comment or in other words feedback on their opinion. This creates argument towards the topic. From here people will able understand the subject from different point of view.
The advantage of Bloging
Blog has created an opportunity to the public to voice out their opinion. According to Microsoft (2008), there are only small amounts of audience for each blog, according to their research, 40% of the total blog have less than ten visitors. Nevertheless, blog are more trendy in Korea, up 11% of blog in Korea have more than 50 visitor per week (Microsoft 2008).
Through the research by Microsoft Group (2008), they conclude that, blogging has become a social phenomenon to Asians. It is one of the internet tools that the Asian utilize it to maintain and build their social networks as well as to express themselves.
Reference
Johnson, B 2007, Blogs mark the first 10 years, Guardian News & Media Limited http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/apr/07/blogging.news Viewed 6 May 2008
Microsoft 2006 Blogging Phenomenon Sweeps Asia, Press realease http://advertising.microsoft.com/asia/NewsAndEvents/PressRelease.aspx?Adv_PressReleaseID=296 viewed 6 May 2008
Friday, May 9, 2008
The purpose of creating my serious blog
Blog has been around for a long period. Today, it expanded and becoming trendier where people begin to create blog to express their feel and opinion. For example, some people write their own dairy, some people post picture and share with public, some even comment on the politics and express their disagreement.
The purpose I am writing blog is to express my opinion and discuss about issues concerning document design and publication. It is very important for the people nowadays especially the young generation to understand and analyze what is publish as well as how to publish your own idea.
Benefit
This blog will provide a clear view on what are the current blog trend and the impact of blog towards the society.
Target Audience
This blog is mainly for the youth especially the college level student or above who seek to know more about the current trend of blog plus to gain more understanding regarding publication issues. Moreover, this blog can also be benefit to those who are in the industry firm to obtain benefit for their future use.
Blog has been around for a long period. Today, it expanded and becoming trendier where people begin to create blog to express their feel and opinion. For example, some people write their own dairy, some people post picture and share with public, some even comment on the politics and express their disagreement.
The purpose I am writing blog is to express my opinion and discuss about issues concerning document design and publication. It is very important for the people nowadays especially the young generation to understand and analyze what is publish as well as how to publish your own idea.
Benefit
This blog will provide a clear view on what are the current blog trend and the impact of blog towards the society.
Target Audience
This blog is mainly for the youth especially the college level student or above who seek to know more about the current trend of blog plus to gain more understanding regarding publication issues. Moreover, this blog can also be benefit to those who are in the industry firm to obtain benefit for their future use.
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