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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.