Current Phenomenon & Benefits of Blogging

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The majority bloggers are from North America and European Union. (Vincent,2011). Malaysia is catching up too due to certain trends of it. There has 500 000 active bloggers in Malaysia.(Utusan Malaysia cited in TheStar ,2008)

Based on the Gaman(2007) stated that bloggers of Malaysia like to write about personal blogs then followed by politics blogs and technology blogs.

Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak  said that “It is no secret that I believe the new media plays an important role in our political and civic future (Bernama News cited in AIBD 2012).  

Therefore, I believed that political blogs play an important communication tool in Malaysia.  Party can post information to the electorate through blogs. It is faster, cheaper and reached larger audiences.

 Besides, it is closely linked to the younger generation about politic issues. People have right to free to speech on blogs. Young people’s comments, views and thoughts are significant to Malaysia’s futures.

More than 8 million Malaysians have actually online shopping in the country and around the world. Thus, Business blogs are quite popular in Malaysia.

Nowadays, a lot of young people like to post their merchandise on blog shops. It is a good way for young people who do not have much capital to run their business off-line.

 Types of goods and services offered and security is concerning trust of consumers for the E-shopping. Unfortunately, Malaysian failed to provide trusting and good services to their customers via E-shopping. (Shafie et al 2011 )

References

Vincent,L 2011, ‘Blog as current phenomena’ , viewed 11 September 2012

<http://leongvincentlvdezignweirdo.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-as-current-phenomena.html>

The Star 2008, ‘Blogging in Malaysia ranks among highest in the world’, viewed 11 September 2012

< http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/4/3/nation/20827588&sec=nation>

Gaman 2007, '50 Most Influential Blogs in Malaysia', viewed 11 September 2012,  <http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/>.

AIBD 2012, ‘New Media vs Traditional Media’ viewed 11 September 2012

< http://www.aibd.org.my/node/1226 >

Shafie,LS, Nayan,S, Mansor,M, Maesin,A, Mahadi,R, Fadzillah,NAA 2011,
 'Trust Attributes and Female Blogshop Entrepreneurs in Malaysia' Interdisciplinary Journal of Research in Business, Vol 1, no.8, pp,1-9, viewed 11 September 2012

<http://www.idjrb.com/articlepdf/idjrb8n1.pdf>

Screen VS print document design

The advantage of Power Point Slides is audio –visual techniques. Backgrounds, color, front size, arrangement of ideas are very important for presenter to crab audiences’ attention and leave long-lasting impression to audiences.

For examples, online news and online magazine, writers need to put larger graphics to crab readers’ attention. Writers must present icons or pictures on online news. In contrast, newspaper, writers need to present full of text instead of larger pictures.

The paragraphs must be short, types of front such as serif front and the size of front must be bigger to easy readers to read it on screen. However, for printing documents do not need to have short paragraphs, smaller size of front and use Sans-Serif to easy reader reads it on paper.

Arrangement of layout on screen is more dynamics. In contrast, arrangement of layout on paper is fixed.

                                                                      online news

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                                                               Printing newspaper

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                                                                    Online Magazine
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                                                                     Printing Magazine
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Schriver (1997,p.407) stated that pictures can attract the reader’s interest and curiosity .Memory for pictures tends to be better than memory for words. Pictures provide the point across fairly ,easily and quickly.

References list:

Markowitz, E 2011, ‘How to Create a Great PowerPoint Presentation’ viewed 20 September 2012

< http://www.inc.com/guides/201102/how-to-create-a-great-powerpoint-presentation.html>

Schriver, K.A. 1997, Dynamics in document design : creating texts for readers, Wiley Computer Publishing, New York.

New forms of media publishing

                                                 New forms of media publishing
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“In old media, content was king, but in new media, conversation is king” (Ari Goldberg cited in Wells 2011)

Facebook, Youtube, Hubspot. Weblogs  and Twitter become new forms of media publishers in our life.

Social Networking Sites

Facebook is a famous social media platform in the world and Facebook has over 800 million users around the world. (Keath 2012) Advertising and promoting products on Facebook will gain largest market share than traditional advertising and marketing networks such as broadcast.

In 2011,  Facebook has 3 media publishing providers which are The Sun,BBC and Directv.(somesso 2011). Thus, news and happening would be directly link to Facebook. Thus, people would rather viewing news from Facebook than watching news from Tv.

                                                               Facebook Ads
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Video Blog

Online video such as Youtube is important of new media publishing. Visual is quite important for advertising products. People more prefer to promote the products on Video rather than reading information of products. Through Video at least people can see it. Video is more entertaining in the current world of short attention spans.

 People can subscribe to channels and free video content hosting on Youtube.Easy to watch and upload video technology on Youtube. Around millions of people view Youtube every day.

                                                                    Youtube Ads
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References list:

Keath, J 2012, ‘Top 10 New Social Media Tools from 2011’ viewed  20 September 2012,

< http://socialfresh.com/the-top-new-social-media-tools-of-2011/>

Somesso.com  2011, ‘3 case studies in media / publishing  in 2011’ viewed 20 September 2012,

http://www.somesso.com/list/media-publishing/2011

Wells, S 2011, ‘Brands As Media Publishers’  20 September 2012

http://fashionscollective.com/FashionAndLuxury/11/brands-as-media-publishers/

 

Credibility of Blogs

Thousands of blogs are being created every day, still have a lot of low quality of blogs like poor writing, out-dated information and so on.

Therefore, Credibility of blogs is very important for bloggers.

Credibility of a blog is not how many readers had viewed a blog, but it is how many loyal subscriber and reader they have got. (Ryank n.d).

Getting traffic of blogging is easy, but not all readers will share and subscribe the blogs unless the blogs have quality of content.

To become a credible blogger, he / she must continuously add value to the field that is writing about and sharing the best and brightest ideas and concepts to readers.Bloggers have to always update new content and information on their blogs. Obtaining links from other professional bloggers, it will build blogs credibility.

The Credible bloggers such as Dan Pallotta,  and Beth Kanter .

        Blog of Dan Pallotta
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                                                             Blog links to other website

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Building credibility of blogs such as trustworthiness and reputation needs to take time to process.

Good reputation will build long term blogging career such as brands, name and products for bloggers.

High credibility of blogs will gain long term financial benefits for their blogs.

           

References list:

Ryank, n.d, ‘Blog Credibility : What’s That?’ viewed 19 September 2012

http://www.shoutmeloud.com/blogging-credibility.html

Purpose of My Blog

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The purpose of creating this blog is to share and discuss about issues in field of publication and design.

This blog addresses about current media publishing and design issues.

As my target audiences are college and university students. Besides, people who are professions in field of media publishing and design.

Classification & opinion of blogs

Based on Meadows(2012) clarified 13 different types of blogs and purposes for each blog. I believed there have more than 13 different types of blogs in the world.

Meadows had classified different types of blogs as below:-

 1         Personal Blog

2          Cultural Blog

3          Topical Blog

4          Business Blog

5          Science Blog

6          Moblog

7          Collaborative Blog

8          Eclectic Blog

9          Educational Blog

10        Directory Blog

11        Forum blog

12        Photo Blog

13        Spam blog (Splog)

 However, there have only 5 types of blogs are most using by people every day. There are personal blog, informative blog, lifestyle/fashion blog, cultural/ travel blog and collaborative blog. (strother 2010)

                                                                       Personal Blog

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                                                                       Cultural Blog                                                                  (Source : pressabout.us)

                                     
                                                              Informative Blog
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                                                          Lifestyle / fashion Blog
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                                                                 collaborative blog
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To clarify different types of blogs, people can identify based on topics, styles of writing, content of blogs and format of blogs.

In my opinion, it is very difficult to clarify different types of blogs as the content of blogs is always having combination information.

 




References List:

Meadows, A 2012, 'Different Types of Blogs and the Many Facets of Blogging '  viewed 19September 2012
<http://www.amberrisme.com/2012/05/05/different-types-of-blogs-and-the-many-facets-of-blogging/>

Strother, G 2010, '5 Types of Blogs, which is best suited for you?' viewed 19 September 2012
<http://strotherweinberg.com/2010/10/5-types-of-blogs/>