Friday, April 16, 2010

NEW FORM OF MEDIA PUBLISHING


In this era blogging are really importance and influenced. Blogs are being considered a logical source of news and high on the liable journalistic. Now day’s new media improve really well but sometimes new media could change to our community. Like new media could replaced the roles in journalism and communication. The traditional things change to be more modern like we can read the newspaper online now days. Walsh (2006) said using modern technology can reach wider reader because flexible and convinience. The new media being exist are Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, online newspaper. Accrding to CrunchBase.com ,Youtube is created by Steven chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim on 2005. According to Frommer (2008) the amazing things the head of online web sharing in the world by web experience got about 100 million people become a visitors in one month in the US are holding by Youtube and US has the biggest percentage of the visitors in youtube which 22.8%. Youtube also get rank 3 for the top site visitors.The people like Youtube because they can upload and share video on the internet that could be music, gaming, movie, education, foods, and sports.
Youtube emerging as campaign tool. Candidates need to reach their voters wider,cheaper ,directly,and better so they using youtube becasue proving quite significant. Technpresident.com said that political campaign is become really popular because have been viewed more than 22 million times on the website.The major player have taken note too,including Hillary Clinton campaign versus Barack Obama using Youtube. Jeff Greenfield(2007) has said that youtube spots are showing extraordinary reach.
Reference List :
Frommer,D,2008," Youtube Hits 100 Million U.S.viewers, Hulu Surges(GOOG)",the Business Insider, viewed 10 April 2010,
Hurley,C,Hoffner,J,Durocher,A&Inghelbrecht,P ,YouTube,viewed 10 April 2010,
Moore,R 2008, Marketing of Barack Obama vs Hillary Clinton in Democratic Election Campaign Using Youtube,viewed 10 April 2010,
"Youtube Company Profile", CrunchBase.com, viewed 10 April 2010,

Thursday, April 15, 2010

TYPES OF BLOGGING COMMUNITIES& METHOD TO BUILD BLOGGING COMMUNITIES

First of all, According to White (2006) in the Internet online community is really important things, mostly forming around email list, forums and also bulletin boards. In the communities has known the power of blog. Bulletin board systems and forums has been joined email lists as instrument that be able to describe people to cooperate around to has the same purpose to a place they can shared each other because has the same interest or history. The benefit blogging community the first which the blog will really different to other blogs, interactivity between readers and creates grabs attention. According to Skellie(2007) there were steps to building community. Firstly, pick a reader to become the designated expert on each topic, have a group chat with the readers to know each other, make a greater effort so the readers want to comment regularly, asking the readers for tips on your blog.
TYPES OF BLOGGING COM UNITIES & EXAMPLE
Blog community means community has being created with people who can share.Blog based community today is showing up in 3 major models with a broad variety; they are The Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community, the Central Connecting Topic Community and the Boundaries Community.

picture single blog/ blogger centric community
picture blog based communities

The first picture blog centric community is the first and the most visible model blog. This blog based community to showing to readers not just getting to know about blogger but also be able to be community commentators. Blog is owned by organization or one owner.

An example of blogging community in Indonesia is President SBY info. The blog is talking about politics, news, criticism, and conflict, event, and economy which will affect Indonesia. It is protected by Sudi Silalahi in 2006. Common people can express their feeling and give any message through the website. The message must be in the proper language and no bad words allowed. The owner holds all the control of the website such they can choose what comment will be post up and what comment will not be post up. So, for the essence point it’s a bounded community system.

Reference List :

Skellie 2007, Building a Community Around Your Blog, viewed 10 April,

http://www.dailyblogtips.com/building-a-community-around-your-blog/

White,N 2006, Blogs and community"launcing a new paradigm for online community , viewed 10 April 2010,

http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-launcing-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community

CLASSIFICATION OF BLOGS & OPINION ABOUT THE MOST APPROPRIATE CLASSIFICATION APPROACH

There are a lot kind of Blogs like base on topics, device, media type and status of publisher. Blogs are phenomenal tools in delivering message, the way to classificate them are by the specific topic bloggers.

subject matter:

politics, eg. Donklephant

Fashion,e.g Fashion tribes

history, e.g Blog 4 history : America & civil war history

Law,e.g Sentencing Law & Policy

Device:

Moblog or mobile blogging, e.g Seth Lakeman's moblog

Media type:

Vlog( video logging) could found out in Youtube. Bloggers post their life experience, e.g Lonelygirl15

Linklog is URLs ( hyperlink) blogging are categorized hyperlinks , e.g Jennifer's Link log

Tumblelog more variation than link log, e.g A shot of JD

Status of publisher:

business blog, e.g GuruFocus.com

Corporate blogs, e.g Redfin Corporate Blog

Margaret Simsons drawing up a list of the different types of online sites that classify as blogs:

1. Pamphleteering blogs or call political blogs they are not just talking about a single issue but they will have a view of author who will publish an entry to the blog, giving opinion on politics, current events.

2. blog Larvatus Prodeo, the blog cover broad variety topics and have more than one author.

3. Advocacy blog be liable to be approaching an exacting point of view on a particular issue. The example is Telstra

4. Popular Mechanics blog which was an attractive collection of information on how to do stuff, with mechanics and how the things worked and so on. Some of people using this blog for make money because it’s a good advertising.

5. Exhibition blog or vanity publishing, this blog kept by artist, writers, craftspeople, and they bring their work to a broad audience.

6. Gatewatcher Blog is the small group of blogs which keep an eye on the media. Media is such as gatekeepers because what the people decide will come to public attention or not. Their purpose is watching how the media will do the job.

7. Australian blog it’s an interested experiment to improving journalism. The interaction might happen in private or public but it’s did not know yet that will going to work or be interesting or not.

8. Diary blog is sites like Facebook and MySpace is a personal blog.

9. Advertisement is a commercial blog by company to advertise their product.

10. News blog is absolutely important blog because quite significant category of blog and sort of contribution blogs which going to make to journalism.

This classification is made by Margaret Simsons. She is a writer and media analyst. According to Media report (2008) she makes types of blog and gives the name of blog by herself. Her taxonomy of blogs first appeared in an article for creative economy online and will find a link on the website. For my opinion Margaret classification is very rational and commonsense beside that the types of blogs are really potentially important contributions to journalism. Because there are a lot difficulties to classify in identification a blog style.

Reference List:

Libraris & Blogs,How blogs are moving into the library world,'Types of blogs', viewed 10 April 2010,

http://www.slais.ubc.ca/COURSES?libr500/03-04-wt2/www/J _Thomson/types.htm

Simons,M 2008, Toward a Taxonomy of Blogs, viewed 10 April 2010,

http://apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-o

BLOG AS CURRENT PHENOMENON & BENEFIT TO COMMUNITY




SIZE
Blog engage people in the world to sharing,reflection, debate .Furthermore, attract reader to a wider and dedicated readership.Now day's blog is stickier to people activity. Web Log are growing phenomenon in whole the world. According to Technorati (2007) said that 120,000 new blog created everyday and new blog has been created every second. Furthermore, there are over 1.4 million new blog posts everyday. Blog is really useful beside for fun and hobby , now people using blog for supplement for their income and business.












According to state of the blogsphere, Michael Arrington (2009) reported that 72% of blogger are hobbyist, their blogging just for fun. About 28% the reason their blogging for earn money. They usually promoting their blog using twitter. Mostly the people using blog are male, between 18-24 years old, and educated.


TREND

The current trend of blogging have spread to whole the world. According to Technorati (2009), the biggest blogger country is in North America with the percentage of 48%. Furthermore, farsi is the new comer just joining rank 10. It's really atractive to following growth of the blogging world in the middle east, like Iran and it's reflected in the language circulation






TYPES OF BLOG PREVALENT IN CERTAIN COUNTRY& BENEFIT



The statistic demonstate in the area politics, business and technoloy has the greates impact. It also will be happen in the next 10 years.




The most influential bloggers in Malaysia is blogsphere. In Malaysia blog are popular in the middle of collage student. Blogging bring a positive effect in Malaysia because it gives advantage to the community . According to Gaman ( 2007) definitely a famous political blogs such as that Jeff Ooi screenshot is more influential than a personal blog such as KennSia.com because politic and technology has a greatest impact on our society.

Reference List :
Arrington,M 2009,2009 State of Blogsphare : The full BlogWorld Presentation, viewed 10 April 2010,

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/16/2009-state-of-the-blogosphere-the-full-blogworld-presentation/

Crosby,C 2009, Technorati's State of the Blogospare 2009,viewed 10 April 2010,

http://www.slaw.ca/2009/11/09/technoratis-state-of-the-blogosphere-2009/#ixzz0137Owffd

Gaman 2007,50 Most Influential Blogs in Malaysia, viewed 10 April 2010,

http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/

Ooi,J 2009, Aniversary:chinise takeaway for Malaysia,pandas for singapore,

http://asiancorrespondent.com/jeff-ooi-blog/

Sifry,D 2007, The State of the Live Web,viewed 10 April 2010,

http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html






PURPOSE OF MY BLOG

The main purpose of this blog is to share my knowladge about information publishing and design with the world.This Blog will giving example, opinion and review. Moreover, this blog also giving some system and principles that useful to learnt for publishing document during a blog, how to relate the rules to stick with the audience.The target audience of this blog especially student and people who interested on publication and design beside that targeted to working people who needed.