Screen vs. Print document design

Throughout the decade, publication has made a big changes or we can say that a tremendous changes that cause by the technology towards the publication. The purpose of screen documents and print documents are almost the same, sending information to the readers, yet in many way, they have their differences.

The differences between Screen and Print Document Design

DIMENSIONALITY

Print design- 2 dimensional, which much focused on the layout. Whereas, screen document is simultaneously 1 demensional and N-dimensional (Nielsen, 1999). Between 2 different type of document, print document and screen document have different type of outcome.

NAVIGATION

According to Nielsen(1999), the N-dimensional aspect of web design follows from the hypertext navigation that is the essence of the web. Whereas, in print document, navigation mainly consists of page turning: an ultra-simple user interface which is one of the printed medium's great benefits. In my opinion, this is one of the reason why screen document are mostly used in this century; and its more interesting for reader to read compare to print document.

RESPONSE TIME, RESOLUTION, AND CANVAS SIZE

According to Nielsen (1999), he stated that the speed of print is much faster, type and image quality, and the size of visible space than the Web. Nevertheless, technologies advancement has changed the speed of bandwidth as fast as to download a webpage as one can turn the page into newspaper. The screen document also allows reader to have sharper resolution's graphic.

Both web and print document design have their pros and cons. Everything has their pros and cons, and same to web and document design. In my personal opinion, i would like to say that web document is more attractive and interesting in visual wise; whereas, print document is easier for reader to read and it doesn't need internet to access, yet web document can always get the latest information.

1. Bear, J, H, 2011, Print Design vs. Web Design, viewed 24th August 2011, <http://desktoppub.about.com/od/transitionprintweb/tp/Print_Design_vs_Web_Design.htm>

2. Neilsen, J, 1999, Differences between Print Design and Web Design, viewed 24th August 2011, <http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990124.html>

New forms of media publishing

What is the new forms of media publishing?

According to the research I had done, NEW MEDIA is the media which is accessible on anytime, anywhere and just by one click, information can be access pretty easily. By using the new media, everyone can voice out their opinion, feelings, dreams through blogs, e-zines, online forum and also internet publications. 21st century stated as the century of advance technology, the transformation from so called "old" form of media to new media has changed the style of writing and publication. Through years and years, human has make a tremendous change on media through the implication of technologies into media. According to Naughton (2006), he stated that the explosive growth in blogging has prompted a predictable outburst of 'endism'- as in questions about whether the phenomenon marks the end of journalism.

Efficiency and Accuration

Compare to previous, new media deliver news faster and more accurate .According to the understanding towards the article that Naughton (2006), he mentioned that internet distribute the information a better knowledgeable on the subject and the undoubtedly efficiency. Thus, there is a lot issue been bringing out due to the freedom of speech, exposure of nudity and also some not descent and uncivil issue that been brought up. Some of the country, Singapore etc, government block most of the pornography which content uncivil and it goes against some religion and will also cause bad impact towards the country and society. Thus, Malaysian popular blogger Raja Petra has been arrested by the ISA due to what he voiced out and also might threatened the national security.

Naughton, J. 2006, 'Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem', viewed 25 August 2011, < http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf >

ABC radio National, New Media Publishing, viewed 25 August 2011,
<http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bigidea/stories/s1485827.htm>

Types of blogging communities and methods to build blogging communities

What is the blogging community?

Blog communities that aggregate the individual and independent blogs of a number of people with a shared interest – the same cause, similar political views, business interest, etc (Kinkeldei, 2007). Nevertheless, it is also a platform for the blogger to increase their blog's traffic and followers. First of all, to create a blogging community, the blogger themselves have to create their own social network, for instance, it is easier for them to advertise their blog and increase the number of followers. For an example, blogging community can easily expand with RSS. From here, we can briefly know how to create a blogging community.

According to White (2006), there is 3 types of blogging community, which is the single blog centric community, the central connecting topic community and also the Boundaried community.

SINGLE BLOG CENTRIC COMMUNITY

-The first and most visible model of focus and spoke model of 'one blog/blogger.

-It only owned by one owner or an organisation.

-Might be more than 1 author, but it is not an aggregation of blogs

-A blog where readers will return and leave comments, not only that readers can get to know the blogger itself and also the other community of commentators. For an example, Xiaxue's blog

THE CENTRAL CONNECTING TOPIC COMMUNITY

-Instead of hub and spoke, the Central Connecting Centric blog community is a network formation where they reader share their common passion.

-They linked together and became a network.

-For an example, "Global Voices" is one of the central connecting topic community.

BOUNDARIED COMMUNITY

-gathered other's blog and readers hosted from a single site or platform.

-often this website function like social network, community can join the group and get the chance to create a blog.

-In this blogging community, they have discussion board, social networking features, wikis and instant messaging.

-For an example, "Edublogs" and "Myspace" is one of the best example.

Kinkeldei, B. 2007, Whitepaper Blog Communities, 21 Publish Cooperative Publishing, viewed 25th August 2011, <http://www.21publish.com/pub/21publish/blogging-whitepaper.pdf>

White, N. 2006. Blogs and community- launching a new paradigm for online community?, The knowledge tree, viewed 25th 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 AND OPINION ABOUT THE MOST APPROPRIATE CLASSIFICATION APPROACH

From the previous post, we talked about the current blogosphere and also the benefits towards the society. Nevertheless, the classification of blogs are also important. Each and every blog that written, they have their own genre and classification regarding on what their blogs bring to the public. The blogosphere phenomenon grow tremendously and it is getting harder to classify the types of blog as there is too many different types of blogger, the scope of writing is wider than how we can classify it. Thus, different person classify blog differently.

According to Belardo (2010), she classified blogs into 5 types:

• Collaborative blog


• Tutorial blog


• Travel and cultural blog


• Fashion and lifestyle blog


• Personal blog

Among the 5 types of blog above, personal blog is the most common one. Everyone can have their own personal blog to write about their daily life or as a dairy. Meanwhile, Simons (2008) classified it into 9 types, which is:

• Pampletheering blogs


• Digest blogs


• Advocacy blogs


• Popular mechanics blogs


• Exhibition blogs


• Gatewatcher blogs


• Diary


• Advertisement


• News blog

Throughout this 2 different people who classified the blog types differently, I would like to say that, Simon (2010) classifed it more in depth. Whereas, Belardo (2010) classified the types of blog in a very general way. In my opinion, I would like the way how Simon (2010) classified the genre and style of writing of each type of blog. Meanwhile, I found that Rowse (2010) classified it as details as how Simon (2010) did, but they have different opinion towards the genre and types of blog, so they came out with different type of blogs.

Belardo, M. 2010, The 5 Types of Blogs | Which One Suits You Best?, Ink Rebels, viewed 24 August 2011, <http://www.inkrebels.com/insp/the-5-types-of-blogs-which-one-suits-you-best/>

Simons, M. 2008, Towards a taxonomy of blogs, viewed 24 August 2011, <http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-0>

Rowse, D. 2005, 20 Types of Blog Posts- Battling Bloggers Block, viewed 24 August 2011,<http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/11/29/20-types-of-blog-posts-battling-bloggers-block/>

Blog as current phenomenon and benefits of blogging to the community

blog that we commonly read

In the advance technology era, blogging is very common towards internet user. Lately, it has became a trend towards the community and also towards internet users all around the world. Blog has become an integral part of online culture ( Chapman, 2011). Undeniable, out of 10 internet users, with a brief assumption, 8 of them do have the habit of reading blog.Here is some brief history of blogging, do click and visit. According to the most current phenomenon, from my research, i found that this article from Technorati, "blogosphere of 2010" has the most current phenomenon of blogging. By summarizing the article, i would like to focus on this 2 main subject that make an big impact towards the society. As the blogosphere converges with social media, sharing of blog posts is increasingly done through social networks( Sobel, 2010 ). From the statement that I quoted, it is clearly shown that the current blogosphere is getting wider and bigger than previous; as social network became part of everyone's life.

With the current blogosphere, in Malaysia, the trend of blog's that people read are more about daily lifestyle (entertainment, fashion, food, daily rant etc. ) and also politic blogs.


A few blog that written by Malaysian blogger

• Chuckei


• Raja Petra


• Cheesie

From the blog above, society can have alternative way to access the information from daily life to politics. If you read from the blog above, basically you will realized that they are actually shared their personal life or opinion towards the public. Nevertheless, in America, blogs are very common, but the most prevalent among all kind of blogs are political blogs. For example, http://www.americablog.com/, it brings a lot of benefits to the country and society, reveal the truth of politics in the country and also a place where people can express and voice out their opinion. Nevertheless, most of the youngster do intervene themselves in the cyber world, by writing political views, it can actually encourage more "Y" generation to involve themselves in politics.

Technorati 2010, State of Blogosphere 2010, viewed 22 August 2010.

Chapman, C. 2o1o, A Brief History of Blogging, viewed 22 August 2010.<http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2011/03/a-brief-history-of-blogging/>

Purpose of my blog

Hi, this is the first post of my blog. I would like to do some brief introduction for this blog. First of all, the issue that i would like to talk about in the upcoming post will be the issues in publication and design which is also the course that I took in this semester.

As a student who study media and communication, we have to learn more about what is weblog and how does weblog function and benefits towards the public. Nevertheless, blog plays an important role in the media and communication field. I would like to target a few group of people as my follower/reader, media and communication student who have the habit to follow blogs and also people who have the same interest as what the blogger blog about. In this advance technology era, I believe that, most of the people have internet at home, thus, the reader of blog will increase tremendously based on the common used of internet, throughout that, as a blogger, I am glad that internet became common and the information and message will be easier to send out towards the public.

By sharing your opinions and comments regarding on my blog will be much appreciated.

Thanks!