Good design for screen genre

Creating a document alone requires more than just adding words to it and pictures. It is more than that. Schriver (1997) mentioned that a good document design is best to go with pictures and text to make it grasp the audience attention and also to make it easier to understand. Starting off with the text style where audience prefer summary reading and inverted pyramid style. According to Morkes and Nielsen (1997), audience would like to know of what is the document about whether it would be a waste of time or not. Brief text in a website helps audience to download it faster and also navigate the site easier. Based on the three principles of a good document would be scan able, concise and objective writing styles.

The slide uses a soft tone for the background to reinforce the messages in the slides making it more relaxing tone for readers. Then boldface is used for the headings to create attention of what is title of the discussion is about.



Lastly, bullet points are used to guide readers the flow of discussion (Reep 2006). Another importance would be the distribution of the information of the slides. The layout of text is best to be equilibrium such as the slides flows horizontally from left to right (Berhandt 2009).



From my opinion, the audience are more engaged to the picture slide rather than the other slides.



It shows that the interest of text and visual creates a better view of understand among the audience. Therefore, it is best to refrain from using symbolic icons to confuse the readers. Thus, writing of text should be direct and concise without any information loss.

References:

Bernhardt, SA 2009, ‘Seeing the text’, College Composition and Communication, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 66-78

Reep,DC 2006, 'Document Design', Pearson/Longman, New York.

Nielsen,J & Morkes, J 1997,'Concise,Scannable and Objective:How to Write for the Web',Useit.com,viewed 7th April 2010,.

Schriver K.A 1997, 'Dynamics in Document Design: Creating Texts for Readers', Wiley Computer Pub., New York.

New forms of media publishing

Most people get their latest news or information from a television, websites, radio and so forth. The new ecosystem where we all grow up in a new media environment and it is definitely in a process of changing. The internet media environment is more interactive than a print media where convenience, fast searching of news, beautiful attractive background, hyperlinks and more. Blogging for instance, new blogs are created every 2 seconds and they are mainly trust source of information as they are expert in their fields. From my opinion, the trend is changing to a more flexible with more interaction in a quicker way than before. Also, it is always updated frequently with latest news on the internet media which is faster than print media. Therefore, anyone can use a search button to find the specific topic they want based on the keywords typed.


(Source: http://www.jayceooi.com/2007/09/27/wwf-malaysia-has-a-new-website-layout/)

Compare with print media, it is very lenghty and inconvenient.


(Source : http://sites.google.com/site/accsdbze/whats-new)

For example, with the latest technology gadgets such as laptops or even smart phones and an internet access, anyone could post up the latest news or information they know within few seconds. Unlike print medias, it takes much longer time for the news to reach the audience.

In Italy, Nichi Vendola, the left-leaning governor of Puglia was re-elected via the use of internet media such as Facebook, Tweeter and YouTube (Naughton 2006). Imagine the power of internet media in political campaigns and how people gain access to more information than the print media.

However, internet media does have less information and it is more to straight to the point where else print media is crowded with words and also looks less attractive. Thus, document designers ought to look at these flaws to create a better piece and effective design.

References;

Naughton, J 2006,‘Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem’,viewed 7th April 2010,.

Blogging Communities

Basically, blogging community is a group of people with shared common of interest and their passion of blogging. Blogging alone does not just occur via internet. Meeting up or even have social events with one of another bloggers. So the point is, blogging community is not just about sharing their information or passion but it is more to having a great time together and making new friends with the same common interest (The Travel Tart 2009).

Lately, with such networking websites like Facebook and Tweeter, the number of people who used to visit personal blogs tends to decline. Creating a blogging community and to keep blogs alive is by understanding the importance of personal connection with the bloggers. Those who takes their time to leave a comment, it would be best to keep in touch with them or reply on the comment or via e-mail. Therefore, Comment E-mail Responder plugin for Wordpress allows to do both which makes it more convenient (Mueller 2009).

One blog centric community may have multiple authors in a single blog sharing their personal experience or information. Therefore, it is different than a traditional online community where this brings people closer. There would be rules and regulation for the members (White 2006).



Topic centric community arises between the blogs around with shared common interest such as entertainment and they have links from one blog to another via hyperlinks(White 2006).



Boundaried community is where members join this community and are given the opportunity to create blogs. Normally they have discussion board to voice out their opinions or even chat in their column(White 2006).



Global Voices community is topic centric blogging community where bloggers share their experiences from developing countries. This is the part where they also voice out their views of the topic (White 2006). However,acquiring more information among the links from one to another about a topic is not enough because the ideas are just circulating and agreeing among members of the community.



References:

Mueller, E 2009,'How to Create Community on Your Blog (For Wordpress Users)',Blissfully Domestic,viewed 7th April 2010,.

The Travel Tart 2009, 'What is a Blogging Community?',viewed 7th April 2010,.

White, N 2006, 'Blogs and Community- Launching a New Paradigm for Online Community?', The Knowledge Tree,viewed 7th April 2010,.

Classification of blogs and opinion about the most appropriate classification approach

Technically blogging alone does not mean only to express a writer’s thoughts for the day or describing their own personal matters. Blogs comes in many classifications such as subject matter (entertainment, fashion, politics etc) and media type (linklog, sketchlog, tumblelogs etc). According to Cismaru (2010), personal blog is an ongoing diary or a journal bout their personal life experiences. In Malaysia, the most popular and influence personal blogs would be nonetheless Kenny Sia ( Sabahan.com 2007).

While searching for blogs, normally I would seek for the one with a same background interest as me. For instance, my personal blog is about entertainment. I would definitely search for bloggers who blogs on the favourite artist of mine. When I view a blog, I would be more concern of the topic as it provides relevant information of the same interest. The style of it is also important for the readers to be able to read the information clearly. Definitely a beautiful design would be a plus point to the blog but if it is lack of relevant information, it would turn the readers off.

Comparing from one of the type of blogs would be Diary blog with Personal blog which they are similar in terms of contents such as personal lives stories and so forth (Funnel 2008). It is just the name given to that genre where one is diary while other is personal. It used to be very popular back then till other networking sites such as Facebook and Tweeter emerges. From my opinion, blogging on personal stuff will not be as convenient as the networking sites which are more users friendly and a variety of applications to choose from.

References:

Cismaru, DM 2010,'Types of Blogs: Blog Communication in Contemporary Society',viewed 7th April 2010,.

Funnel,A 2008,'A Taxanomy of Blogs:The Media Report',viewed 7th April 2010,.

Sabahan.com 2007, '50 Most Influential Blogs in Malaysia',viewed 7th April 2010,http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/.

Blogs as current phenomenon and benefits of blogging to the community

More bloggers nowadays tend to make extra income from blogs and majority of them are part-timers. Bloggers earns extra incomes from entrepreneurs as they advertise their brands from their own website on one’s blog (Sussman 2009).



Indeed, blogging became a big hit among politicians especially. Years much later, based on the graph, blogging would just be more on politicians around the world discussing on elections, government issues and so forth.



White (2009) mentioned ever since advertising became a hit on blogs, bloggers in different region have garnered higher average annual revenue more than $6,000.

Comparing bloggers in Europeans and Asia with both having advertising on their blogs tend to make more revenue than the United States bloggers. Surprisingly, three quarters of these successful bloggers are in fact males who they are more likely to be professionals or corporate bloggers.

Basically political blogs is more dominant especially in United States during the election of the new president as well as it plays a part of a deciding factor (Sussman 2009)

Indeed blogging is beneficial to the public in terms of making profit. Advertisers definitely take the opportunity to promote and create awareness in blogs. Thus, bloggers will earn profit from advertisers. Political issues are popular in any countries especially nearing election time. Iran banned journalists from around the state and blocked popular websites. People turned to blogs to know more of the on-going situation in Iran.

References:

Sussman,M 2009,'Day 4: Blogging Revenues, Brands and Blogs: SOTB 2009',Technorati,viewed 4th April 2010, .

Sussman, M 2009,'Day 5: Twitter, Global Impact and the Future Of Blogging - SOTB 2009',Technorati,viewed 4th April 2010,.

White,D 2009,'Day 5: Brands Enter The Blogosphere',Technorati,viewed 4th April 2010,.

Purpose of my blog

The aim of this blog is to analyze and review the issues in publication and design. This blog would be focusing on issues of blogging, media publishing and web-based media. Thus, students and professionals who are related communication field will find this blog beneficial for their future references.