Old newspapers is so yesterday ..

In the current world we are living in, there are so many new forms of media publishing. Many of these newest trends and issues, our communication environment is changing. Tradionally, we have drawn linguistic and analytical tools from economics and as a consequence seek to interpret what is going on through the prism of that dismal science.

This seems to me a more insightful way of viewing our communications environment that the conventional ‘market’ metaphor more commonly used in public discussion, because it comes to closer to capturing the complexity of what actually goes on in real life.

In today’s world we have Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and other alternative online newspaper site that has altered the roles of journalism and communication. Many are using youtube nowadays to make video blogs and to speak up just about anything that isn’t seem to be right or fair, in hoping that justice will prevail, but it’s the only platform for people to be a voice.

Who says that journalism is all about the old newspapers? Twitter and facebook and newspaper like Malaysia Kini has drawn so much readers because newspaper itself sometime only tell the half truth and many out there are wanting to know the whole truth, so why rely on just our old plain newspaper when with all this new forms of media publishing, we get to have real inside from the people itself who are being involve. This way we get the whole perspective of the news.

Reference:

1) Naugthon J, Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf

2) (n/a) http://targetjobs.co.uk/career-sectors/media-and-publishing

3) Ryan Sholin, “Ten Obvious Things about the Future of Newspapers,” http://ryansholin.com/2007/06/02/10-obvious-things-about-the-future-of-newspapers-you-need-to-get-through-your-head/

Blogging Communities

Blogging is a tool for those who would like to express what they feel in their heart, mind and soul. It’s for those who want to express their creativity, to be an inspiration to fellow friends and readers, to speak out the truth in today’s society. It is the same reason for blogging community.

Blogging community or some would call it ‘online community’ is where many can gather to interact around sharing a same purpose. Communities could be public or private and visible only to those who joined.

Many of us are interested in the application of online community to learning and work, ‘grew up’ in this era of bounded communities. Blogs are adopted as personal publishing platforms, but community always found its infrastructural roots in forums and email list, tools that many of us felt defined online conversation.

So how do you create a blogging community? It’s simple. One of the many ways one can do is to visit other blog sites to get some ideas and inspirations; you’ll be able to discover blogs that you share a common interest with. Whenever you visit another blog it pays more to just read the blog. By leaving a comment, you are leaving a calling card. As long as you leave your blog URL somewhere, it gives people a way to come find you. When a person comment on your blog or your post, they want to know that they’ve been heard. Never forget to reply them back. Usually a simple “Thank you for visiting my blog” will do just fine.

Write often! If fact, most professional bloggers will advise that you post more than once a day. Make your post entertaining. That way, people not only would love visiting your blog, they will inform other people or even sharing links with other fellow bloggers or readers out there but it’s a developed skill that any will agree takes time.

In terms of types of blogging communities, there is a wide variety of hybrid forms emerging between three communities which are One Blog Centric Community, Topic Centric Community and Boundaried Community.

One Blog Centric Community is usually owned by one owner or organization. There may be more than one blogger writing in a blog, but the blog is based to emerge readers and in getting to know not only the blogger, but the communities of commenter.

In Topic Centric Community, both power and identity is distributed across the community. The existence of the community doesn’t rise and fall on one blog. It can scale out and form sub communities easily. It has no single technological platform, with each blogger selecting own tool. What link them are hyperlinks, in forms of blog rolls and aggregated feeds (using RSS)

As for Boundaried Community, members that register the community are offered the chance to create a blog. This boundary makes them closest form to traditional forum based communities. Examples include the huge teen oriented site, MySpace.com, Uniblogs and Learner blogs.

References
1) White N, The knowledge tree, viewed 30th September 2010 http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community

2) Nikki S, How to Build a Blogging Community, viewed 30th September 2010 http://www.ehow.com/how_2152382_build-blogging-community.html

3) (N/A) http://www.thetraveltart.com/what-is-a-blogging-community/

clas.si.fi.ca.tion

In terms of classification of blogs, there are many systems out there with appropriate approaches. Blogs are use for anything nowadays. There are blogs for Politics, Fashion, History and even Law. Many of this bloggers uses their blogs as a tool to inform fellow bloggers in the blogging world. Other classifications like mobile blogging keep a person on the go to receive quick updates and to share with any latest updates.

There’s even such a thing as having a video blog where viewers can just watch what’s happening instead of reading a long article and of course cooperate blogs for the working world. Many of this blogs has its own uniqueness, style and format for their audience and it always depends on a person’s preference.

Margaret Simons (a taxonomy of blogs) talks about blogs as an individual or a group of individuals put out a brief essay arguing a point, or expressing a strong point of view, authors who will publish an entry to the blog, giving points of view on current events, on politics, sometimes broader event.

Personally I feel that any best approach boils down to a person’s preference. It depends on what’s the topic about that would capture their attention.

References

1) Simons M, Media Report, viewed 30th September http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript)

2) (n/a) viewed 30th September http://socialmedia.typepad.com/blog/classification/

3) (n/a) viewed 30th September http://www.chrisheuer.com/2005/07/14/simple-blog-classification-system-please-no-acronyms/

How to not bore your audience while presenting

I’m sure many of us can recall the first time we ever had to stand in front of a large crowd to give our presentation and most of the time, we are just very nervous because we are so afraid that we might just miss out the words we want to say or that we might just embarrass our own self.

I remember a teacher telling me this once in a study camp that a good way to start of a presentation is to always be confidence.

“Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.” – Anonymous.

One good way to be more confident about giving a presentation is to breakdown the word – present-ation. You are to give your audience a present; it’s going to be much easier for them to learn the topic by listening to you rather than just reading the material.

As we present, we must have accurate information; make sure there aren’t too many words in one slide because sometimes too much is just terrible. Keep it interesting, making sure the background and the words balance with each other.

Last but not least, always remember to keep it short and simple.

Reference:

1) Marquez L, How to make a Good Powerpoint Presentation, viewed 30th September 2010
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Make-a-Good-PowerPoint-Presentation&id=4313178

2) Russel W, 10 tips for Creating Successful Presentations, viewed 30th September 2010
http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/powerpointinbusiness/tp/bus_pres_tips.htm

3) (N,A) http://thinkexist.com/quotation/each_time_we_face_our_fear-we_gain_strength/297857.html

Blogging - Ain't just an online diary

When I first heard about blogging, I’ve always thought it was like an online diary and I wasn’t too fond of that idea because I had that thought in mind like “why would anyone want to share their inner feelings out to the world”, only to find that I was wrong.

Blogging has grown so much that it has a vast variety of site to select. Nowadays to kick start a blog, there is BlogSpot, Xanga, Wordpress, Lifelogger, Google blog and even now Tumblr.

According to David Sifry, Technorati’s chief executive, the current number of blogs is now over 8 times bigger than the 500,000 blogs it measured in June, 2003. The company tracked 3 million blogs as of the first week of July, and has added over 1 blogs to its stable since then. Meanwhile, Report shows that a new weblog is created every 5.8 seconds. That roughly translates into 15,000 new blogs every day. (Pew Internet & American Life, 2004)

Blogging has a lot of its benefits, for some, it is use for online shopping, examples are like clothing lines or phone’s accessories and for some, blogging has been pretty political, but many has use blog to be their own voice in this country.

Reference :

1) McGann R, The blogosphere by Numbers, viewed on September 30th 2010 http://www.clickz.com/clickz/stats/1709780/the-blogosphere-by-numbers

2) Sussman M, Day 1: Who Are The Bloggers, viewed on September 30th 2010

http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-1-who-are-the-bloggers1/

3) Sussman M, Day 2: The What and Why of Blogging, viewed on September 30th 2010

http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-1-who-are-the-bloggers1/

Genesis - The coming into being.

by `jmonzani

The picture says it all, doesn't it?

The definition of copyright says " It's a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. Copyright does not respect ideas, only expressions or fixation."

It is true we are ought to respect a person's masterpiece. My target audience for this matter would be teenagers ranging from the age of 13- 21. Teenagers nowadays need to learn and to be educated in this area of copyright. It is a serious issue, a simple example "it's like taking something without asking".

With access from the internet, nowadays it's so easy to just download a file. Mostly all of teenagers today download songs to movies to video games. It's just about anything and well, it is a serious offence to do something like that. However not many cares about copyright issues, I mean since it's free, why bother?

Hence this blog, to inform people about the danger and a serious offence and those who gets into trouble will be caught the Copyright Act 1987 in Malaysia.