What is the new form of media publishing?

"Youtube on demand"

When I was walking around my campus IT lab and library that day, it is amazing when I saw out of 10 students, 7 of them will open a website stated http://www.youtube.com/ which I am very curious about why so many people visited that site. Hence, I go straight to a students and throw her with tones of questions such as

“What is so interesting about Youtube?”

“Why don’t you buy dvd or cd and play it at home?”

“Do you think that Youtube can put my friends funny videos?’

However, the answer from her was that Why Don’t you try it out yourselves? Thus, I borrow the laptop from her and start viewing all sorts of videos. It is amazing that there are so many different types of videos in Youtube that myself are even addicted to it. In addition, you can post your friends funny videos or prank videos onto it which is so fabulous.

Youtube has certainly taken the world by storm as it has set the new path of media publishing. To be honest, as a marketing student, I even have thought of “Youtube marketing” as it could be a style of viral and buzz marketing that could create a stir to the audience. In addition, reality movies stars also not only promoting themselves on their own blog but rather link it with Youtube and thus, increase their chances of being voted. That is the rationale behind why Youtube is the leading online video and medium of sharing videos (Youtube, 2008).

However, there are always drawbacks even how extraordinary stuff could be. There is no exclusion in the Youtube scenario. A very good example to portray would be the threat video posted to threaten the police by Bird Road Rudy (NBC, 2008). This will certainly making the community into chaos, making the people fear that they maybe the next victim.

To put it briefly, Youtube have been a very interesting new type of media that have penetrated to mostly everyone in the world which is a great helm of success. Although it have some drawbacks, but, I personally still think that is great to have Youtube as now I can watch free movies online everyday without having to but lots of dvds or violating the law by downloading other videos with very express speed.

Reference list:

NBC, 2008, viewed at 8th May 2008,

<http://www.nbc6.net/news/15055640/detail.html?rss=ami&psp=news>

Youtube: Broadcast Yourselves, 2008, viewed at 8th May 2008,
<http://www.youtube.com/t/about>

Designing online vs print

"Online Media"

"Print Media"

Creative and innovative human being always strives to achieve a goal or vision with “feelings” and “emotions”. Hence, while you are using various medium avenue to design it will certainly differ as the effect, process, materials and style used are all different. Print document is the conventional way of designing in which we can feel with our touch senses and get hold on the stuff we want. In contrast, online design is a revolutionary style of designing utilizing different technology to produce the masterpiece whereby we can only observe it without able to touch it.

Both designs have its own distinctiveness and restrictions. For print documents, it will be rather rigid as wordings appear to be displayed in linear line as readers need to read it from either from right to left, up to bottom which is pre-set by the restricted reading path (Kress & Leuwen, 1998). This is portrayed in the picture above.

On the other hand, online designing is more vibrant with lots of hyperlinks, images, pictures, interactive tools without having to follow the boring reading path of the conventional way (Kress & Leuwen, 1998). A very good example would be portrayed in the pictures above.

In a nutshell, I suppose both ways of designs have their own distinctiveness and limitation. However, both are equaled important as they need to be used complementary to caters to the different audience across the world. In short, I always think that if both design can work complementary, it will ultimately make use of the two style to their fullest which will produce the best of the best ever design catering to various audience.

Reference list:

Kress,G and Leeuwen, VT, 1998, “The Meaning of Composition” in reading composition, Oxford.

Classification of Blog

"Moblog's the trend"

Types of blogs
As blog is the platform or avenue to voice out a person feelings and insights, hence, there are certainly numerous categories of blogs that could be differentiated such as:

Political blogs
http://www.chedet.com/

Travel blogs
http://www.travelblog.org/

Entertainment blogs
http://perezhilton.com/

There are certainly more types of blogs than those listed above as one can actually write their daily gossip stuff or a serious web blog like the one I am devising right now. In addition to that, there are various types of device of blogs that make the life of bloggers much easier such as vlog and moblog. Moblog is certainly one of the easiest and convenient tools for a blogger as it can help them to maintain their blog up to date without having the trouble to find a computer and internet connection before they are able to express their inner insights.

“The mobloging conference is evidence that the culture of street bloggers I anticipated has sprouted in the real world”
(Rheingold, 2003)

This proves to us that this devise of Moblog have been treated as a very vital tool in the next era of blogging.

Elements when you are looking into a blog
The elements I look into a blog when there are numerous combinations of styles
Different people will have their very own criteria when they are reading a blog. For me, I think it is crucial to have a very attractive title in conjunction with appropriate photos or images before I will pay my attention into the contents that are written.

Blogging community
People that are sharing same interest tend to have their unique groups. Therefore, there are no differences in the blog community in which people who share same insights or interest will group together and form some blog such as in social networks like facebook or friendster. In addition, they will add some tools such as chatbox or videos links to make their communication easier and convenient.

Current community trends
As blog has becoming a useful tool, thus, lots of idols are ultilise it to the fullest by promoting themselves in their own fans blogs which will help them in their endeavors as their fans can know better of them. Besides that, participants in competition also use it to get more votes when they express themselves to the world through their blogs.

Reference list:

Rheingold, 2003, view at 8th May 2008,
<http://www.ojr.org/ojr/technology/1057780670.php>

The current phenomenon and its community effect

"Blogosphere trends"

Current size of blogosphere
When somebody utters the word “blogosphere”, what is the very first faint idea that comes across your mind? Generally, one person may articulate that it is correlated with the atmosphere and another may argued that it is bits and pieces that related with blogs. In short, it is actually the participation and interconnection between logs and journals written in the internet (SearchSOA, 2008). According to Silfry (2006), there are 2 blogs on average created each second every day. Blogpulse (2008) maintains that there are already 78 millions of blogs identified and 93 thousands of blogs are produce within the last 24 hours dated at 9th May 2008. Therefore, this bits of information has certainly portrayed to us the size of contemporary blogosphere is massive, thus, playing a crucial role in its significance towards the present and future global community.


The trend in US, Asia and Malaysia
There are certainly numerous trends that could be identified throughout the world as not all the homosapiens thinks alike. In US, those bloggers are interested in expressing their thoughts rather than blogging for fame or to be get paid (Hobson, 2008). However, Asian is not as “open” as the west as they are restricted with their culture or their country’s law, hence, mostly discussing about fashion, technology and personal life. In addition, Malaysians are more to the personal life and politics issues such as http://www.kennysia.com/ and http://www.jeffooi.com/.


Types of blogs that is prevalent in US, Asia & Malaysia
Life and experiences are the main stuff that is primarily in the blogs of US. This is due to the fact that they are interested in expressing their daily lifestyle (Hobson, 2008). In Asia, the most prevailing blogs would be the fashion blogs in Japan. According to Sabahan (2007), 28% of the bloggers write about their personal issues. This is further maintained by Microsoft (2008) whereby 34% write on their personal space.

The benefits of blogs to Malaysian communities
Blogging has became a crucial platform to the world as it let each and every inhabitants in the world to express their thoughts and feelings without them to express directly to another person if they are afraid to do so. In addition, there is always freedom of speech in blogs, hence, they are able to express some stuff that they could not utter in daily life. Other than that, demanding figure such as Tun Datuk Seri Dr.Mahathir also express his thought in his own blog of http://www.chedet.com/ which proves to us that it could be a tool to express anything in so that it does not violate another person rights.

Reference list:

Blogpulse, 2008, viewed at 8th May 2008,
<http://www.blogpulse.com/>

Hobson, 2008, viewed at 8th May 2008
<http://www.nevillehobson.com/>

Microsoft, 2008, viewed at 8th May 2008
<http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/press/archive2006/linkpage4337.mspx>

Sabahan, 2007, viewed at 8th May 2008
<http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/>

SearchSOA, 2008, viewed at 8th May 2008, <http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci1007574,00.html>

Sifry, 2006, viewed at 8th May 2008,
<http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000436.html>

The Purpose behind the Blog

"Bloggers around the world"

The potential of blog have been prominent in the past decades as it proved to be a very splendid tool to commanding figure and great entrepreneurs in sharing their “secret recipe” or showing their “magic touch” in their journey to earn millions or even billions of bucks for their companies. As a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step, thus, I will kick-off my very first academic blog in the Iconic presence. Generally, the rationale behind this blog is to mingle the “classroom knowledge” together with the issues in publication and document design and share it with other students, professionals bodies in design and publication, entrepreneurs and so forth who are interested in the topic I am passionate to blog. In a nutshell, I hope that this blog could give some crucial insights and ideas to my audience.