Screen vs. Print Document Design

Screen document as we known as internet document have the potential to combine words and images in complex structures (Walsh 2006). Website has been create to attract attention of people all around the world, it offers a good layout, trust-able resources and provide picture, voice and video to make the readers have a depth understanding about the topic. Nielsen (1999) discuss about web design function is by letting the user's hand to move and looking for their need (by scrolling or clicking).

When we reading in screen, it will make us got much knowledge about specific topic that we need ,will make us always update every time and every where we need it, and more efficient. However reading online looks more interesting, it may not be effective as the printed reading. Its because the process involves many physical manipulation of the computer and it will interferes our focus with the reading; and online text provides so much thing about the reading which make us leave our imagination room to illustrate what 
we are reading (Ballantyne 2008).



Whereas print document design is based on letting reader's eyes read all the information that stated there to make page element enhance and explain each others (Nielsen 1999). Sellen & Harper (1997) mention the advantages when we read a print document is paper supporting annotation while reading, quick navigation, and flexibility of spatial layout.






It is some explanation about Screen and print document design. So which one do u prefer?

References : 
1. Ballantyne, C 2008, 'Online vs print reading: which one make us smarter?', Scientific American, 23 December, viewed 26 August 2011, <http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=online-v-print-reading-which-one-ma-2008-12-23>.
2. Nielsen, J 1999, Differences between print design and web design, Alert box, <http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990124.html>.
3. Sellen, A & Harper, R 1997, 'Paper as an Analytic Resource for the Design of New Technologies. Proceedings of CHI', pp 319-326.
4. Walsh, M 2006, 'The Textual Shift: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts', Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol.29, no.1, pp 24-37.

New Forms of Media Publishing

The world has changed in media form,

TRADITIONAL MEDIA

NEW MEDIA

New Media have its benefit to end-users : High impact, Freedom of choice, Usefulness , Instant availability, Kudos, Effectiveness, Appropriateness, The capability to sustain long term relationships, Expandability (Rossister 2010).


Back to 1980 to 1990, we only can obtain news through print. It started with only black and white printed pages and it's slightly confusing to read each article.

And now the newspapers have come out with color ,more interesting , and not make the readers confuse anymore when we compared with 1980's newspaper.

The new forms of media publishing which vastly use by people all around the world which combination of digital convergence, personal computer and global networking (Naughton 2006). Now on we are not just can't read the news by newspaper, now everyone can read news through the internet (e-newspaper) . It's become a new innovation that slowly replacing printed newspaper and reducing the production cost for newspaper company (Ihlstrom 2005).

Blog also taken its part being the news forms of media publishing, it makes people have their freely to come out with their opinion and feeling without any hindrance. People do not need to wait to share their ideas, it makes the news easily reach to people who have the same ideas. Social network like twitter, myspace, Youtube, facebook and so forth also taken a big role in new forms of media publishing. It's not only stop in it, now you can find anything and it always update via online, media has already provided e-magazine , e-books, e-television, skype ,yahoo messager, etc to spread the news through the internet.

References :
1. Ihlstrom, C 2005, The E-Newspaper Innovation-Converging Print and Online, viewed 26 August 2011, < http://diginews.se/files/The%20e-newspaper%20innovation.pdf >.
2. Naughton, J 2006, 'Blogging and the Emerging Media Ecosystem', viewed 25 August 2011, <http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf>.
3. Rossister, L 2010, ‘The Benefit of new Media’, viewed 25 August 2011, <http://www.rossiterandco.com/new-media-02-benefits.htm>.

BLOGGING COMMUNITY

The good advantages of online community is that users are able to contact , share their idea , news, matters and communicate with each other through blogging or emails (Berube 2005). White (2006) define the blogging community is a community who interact online within some bounded set of technologies.

According to White (2006), there are three types of bloging community, which are: 


1. Single Blog / Blog centric community


Owned by one owner / organization and make the readers be a part of community commenter although they not able to control the topic.

2. Central connecting topic community


The blog focus on certain topic, and other technologies are supporting the structure of these topic communities

3. Boundaries community


Collection of blogs and blogs readers hotel on platform. It works like forum which have their own discussion board and social network feature

 

Methods to build the Blogging Community (Nikkis 2010) :


Step 1: Read others blog to discover blogs which share the same interest and discover the start point to create a blog as to discuss with readers


Step 2: Leave comments on other blogs and put blog's URL so others can find your blog


Step3: Reply all comments to show people that their comments are appreciated


Step 4: List your blog in directories


Step5: Update your blog daily to give your readers with variety information and keep them longer to keep read it


Step 6: Makes your blog interest in background and its contain for your audiences targeted


Step 7: Start marketing your blog by making signature about your blog link beside the action of visiting and commenting on other blogs.


References:


1.  Bérube , M 2005, 'Blogging back at the Right' , vol. 91, no.5, viewed 24 August 2011, <http://www.jstor.org.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/stable/pdfplus/40252835.pdf?acceptTC=true>.


2. Nikkis 2010, 'How to Build a Blogging Community', eHow, viewed 24 August 2011, <http://www.ehow.com/how_2152382_build-blogging-community.html>

3. White , N 2006, 'Blog and Community - launching a new paradigm for online community' , blog posting, 11 September, 24 August 2011, <http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>.

Classification of blogs & opinion about the most appropriate classification approach

There are three main reasons why people do blog is to speak about their mind, share expertise and experiences with family / friends, and making money or do business (Sussman 2009). Blog classification is required for the relevant blog searches, grouping blogs at a higher conceptual level, and its use (Singh & Joshi 2010).

CLASSIFICATION of BLOGS:


Margaret Simmons (2008) came up herself with nine classifications :


1. Pamphleteering blog : an individual / group of individual arguing a case
2. Digest blog : collection of materials of elsewhere
3. Advocacy blog : advocacy/ commercial group cover many different issues
4. Popular Mechanics blog : offer training and advice in specialist field
5. Exhibition blog : bring someone creation to wider audiences

6. Gatewatcher blog : gatekeepers of traditional media
7. Diary
8. Advertisement : to boost products
9. News blog

For my opinion Margaret classification of blogs are really potentially and have important contributions to journalism, its make us as the common bloggers have a lot difficulties to classify a blog.


On the other hand, in my opinion classification based on Subject Matters:


1. Political


2. Law


3. Fashion

4. History


5. Technology


6. Travel

7. Sport


8. Food

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References :

1. Ervaletta, T 2010, ‘

CLASSIFICATION OF BLOGS & OPINION ABOUT THE MOST APPROPRIATE CLASSIFICATION APPROACH

’, Blog spot , blog posting, 26 October, viewed 21 August 2011, <http://tiffanyxoxoervaletta.blogspot.com/2010/04/classification-of-blogs-opinion-about.html>.

2. Simmons, M 2008, Towards a taxonomy of blogs, Creative and Digital, Australian Policy Online, viewed 20 August 2011, <http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-0>.

3. Singh, AK & Joshi, RC 2010, Semantic tagging and classification of blog, Digital library, IEEE Explore, viewed 21 August 2011, <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?reload=true&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel5%2F5616735%2F5640373%2F05640490.pdf%3Farnumber%3D5640490&authDecision=-203>.

4. Sussman, M 2009, The What and Why of Blogging, Article, Technorati,viewed 20 August 2011, <http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-2-the-what-and-why2/page-2>.

Blogs as current phenomenon and benefits to the community

WHAT IS BLOG? 

Blog is an abbreviated version of 'weblog' , which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. It is also known as online personal diaries (Wu 2005).

Blogging is not just writing. Blogging is now what television used to be. It's what newspaper used to be.It's what magazine used to be. It's whats book used to be. It can include images, audio, video, slide-shows, e Books, and all other manner of what we call 'embedded media' (Martine 2010).

WHAT IS BLOG'S BENEFIT?


As the blogosphere converges with social media, blogs content significantly more influental than social network are (Technorati 2010). Nowadays, many people do blogging; the number of bloggers is increasingly every year.

About 175,000 new weblogs were created each day, which means that on average, there are more than 2 blogs created each second of each day (Sifry 2006).

For commonly bloggers, it is like their diary to write their story, about their thoughts, about what they have done today, how they felt, share some experiences, basically they write a bit about everything. Blog is also one of their weapons to business; as proof they use blogs to write about their work like promote, reportage, and persuade. So it can be read and interact with all people around the world without taking long time.

References:

1. Martine M 2010, 'What is Blogging', Remarkablogger, blog posting 26 February, viewed 18 August 2011, <http://remarkablogger.com/2010/02/26/what-is-blogging/>.
2. Sifry, D 2006, State of Blogoshere, Alerts, Technorati, viewed 18 August 2011, <http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000436.html>.
3. Sobel, J 2010, State of Blogoshere 2010 Introduction, Article, Technorati, viewed 18 August 2011, <http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2010-introduction/#ixzz1VOTsOXuZ>.
4. Wu, TH 2005, 'Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: A Malaysian Case Study on Blogging Towards a Democratic Culture', paper presented at the 20th British, Irish, Law, Education, and Technology Association Conference, National University of Singapore, 6-7 April.

Purpose of my blog

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