Good design for screen genre

Reep (2006) stated that readers not only read the written words on a page but also the visual arrangement of the text. The sub-heading is not clearly being illustrated. Reep (2006) mentioned that a typeface is a particular design for the type on a page. In the visual of Ideal and Real, the sub-heading's typeface is not clearly emphasized with the red text colour. By having a bolder typeface and eye-catching colour, readers could understand the message easily and will not misread it.

In this second screen shot, it shows visual without text. Bernhardt (1986) stated that written text will gain flexibility in organisation. In addition, text could help in the understanding of a matter in a more appropriate way. Images that do not show any text will render the readers not understanding what the image is trying to deliver. Readers’ interpretation may be different and the meaning of what the publisher is trying to deliver will be lost.

Besides, this third screen shot of my group presentation slide shows a visual with text. However, the message that is trying to be delivered is not clear because there is only black and white text and image being shown. Reep (2006) mentions that colors should be present in a document in order to attract readers and help readers to move through a document and find specific kinds of information. It can also help distinguish among the levels of information according to purpose or importance.

References

1. Bernhardt, S, A, 1986, 'Seeing the text', College Composition and Communication, Vol. 37, No.1, pp.66-78
2. Reep, D, C, 2006, 'Chapter6: Document Design', Technical Writing, Pearson/Longman, 6th edn, pp. 133-172

New forms of media publishing

YouTube is a new media form befitting the technological era of the internet. YouTube allows its users to convey their thoughts through video posts. As a result of its existence, Vlog or a video log can used as express blogging via YouTube. According to Cheng, Dale and Liu (2007, p.1), YouTube has 40million videos of different types and categories.

YouTube found itself facing legal issues of copyright as the videos uploaded onto YouTube can be uploaded without verification. However this is a thing of the past as YouTube now has their content screened and if it violates any company’s copyright, they will remove the video. (Marsden, 2009)

References

1. Cheng, X, Dale, C, Liu, J, 2007, Understanding the Characteristic of Internet Short Video Sharing: YouTube as a Case Study, viewed 12 April 2010,
2. Marsden, 2009, Rhodri Marsden: Why did my YouTube account get closed down?, viewed 12 April 2010,

Types of blogging communities & methods to build blogging communities

What makes up a blogging community? Blogging communites are actually made up of bloggers united by a common blogging website such as an advertisement provider like Nuffnang (an online blog advertising community for the region of Asia). There are three categories that the blogging community can be divided into. Community one, one blogging platform many authors. Community two, where there is one site that unites the bloggers while community three are madu up of bloggers and readers that are connected though social networking.

As mentioned by White (2006), individuals can begin blogging as a medium for community development in areas of technology, social architecture, role of subject matter and issues like life cycles and scalability. For that reason, when building a blogging community, the blogger must one way or another, have connections with other blogger’s website. Nikkis (2009) stated that they can participate in responding to their posts and make their own blogs entertaining, and have frequent updates as well as market their blog to increase readership.

References

1. Nikkis 2009, How to Build a Blogging Community, online, viewed 12 April 2010,
2. White, N. 2006, Blogs and Community-Launching a New Paradigm for Online Community?, online, viewed 12 April 2010,

Classification of blogs & opinion about the most appropriate classification approach

Blog classifications range from political, sports, technological and entertainment blogs. (Technorati, 2009). In Malaysia, there are several more to the classification which would be diary/journal, advertisement, political, fashion and many other minor blogs. Generally, those who uses a blog as a public diary are those of the younger generation while those who uses a blog as a fashion blog are usually females whom are either fashion critiques, highlighting new trends or are operating a blogshop and online boutique. Political blogs are usually generated by politicians and those who are in the political scene. However such blogs have created much uproar back in the political scene as many information are revealed and feuds are ignited from those blogs. Topics may vary from each blog as the blogger decides what to mention in the blog (Bruns & Jacobs, 2005). After the existence of the blogging phenomenon, there has been no other media force that is stronger than the force of blogging.

Political Blog

Personal Blog

Fashion Blog

Advertising Blog

References

1. Bruns, A. & Jacobs, 2005, Uses of Blogs: Chapter One, online, viewed 10 April 2010,< http://snurb.info/files/01%20Introduction%20-%20Axel%20Bruns%20&%20Joanne%20Jacobs%20.pdf>.
2. Technorati 2009, Blog Directory,online,viewed 10 April 2010,.

Blogs as current phenomenon & benefits of blogging to the community

A weblog is simply an online journal that is updated by an individual online. It is available for public reading or it could be private, only accessible by some or none at all. A blog represent the author’s personality by means of writing style, blog design and format. According to Branum (2001), weblog is a term that describes a personal website that is chronologically organized. He also mentioned that weblog represents the online junction of people and time. As books and articles are to authors, weblogs is to bloggers. Individuals blog for a variety of reasons. Some are just merely sharing their ideas, thoughts. Others are to promote their business or to start a discussion.

Now in the age of information technology, nearly everyone in the world is online. Kristi (2009) mentions that when there is a community, the readers will view the particular blog again and leave comments. Those comments will have the blogger inspired to blog more as well as share ideas with others. In return that blogger be recommended to a larger community of bloggers. This will help the blog increase in readership.

References

1. Branum, JM 2001, The Blogging Phenomenon: An Overview and Theoretical Consideration, online, viewed 9 April 2010,
2. Kristi 2009, Benefits of Blogging- Building a Community, online, viewed 9 April 2010,

Purpose of my blog

The purpose of this blog is to highlight and educate publication issues to budding publication designers and other students. Generally this blog is targeted to those who are looking for a summarized version of basics of blogging from the history to the new age principles of it. This blog discusses about other blog issues, blog design as well as many aspects of blogging in the media.