Internet? Blogging? all is part of our life!

Nowadays, internet is part of our life and has changed the life of us. We use the internet to search information, read newspapers or articles, communication such as (yahoo messenger, msn messenger), e-mail, video conferencing and blogging. But on the internet, we feel being lost, disoriented, unsatisfied, bored, stressed and lonesome too. According to Christian Fuchs (2008), Internet and Society, the main goal of this book is to work out a theoretical understanding of the relationship of the internet and society. It is show to question how internet and society need to be shaped in order to avoid risks and to increase the happiness of everyone.



But according to Funnell (2008), the Blogging Revolution that written by Antony Loeswenstein has analyze that power of the blogs appear in six countries. The six countries have commonality that bloggers as a tool to communicate with their world to the government. Funnell and Antony talks about how the people in the country trying to bring change to their country in order doing it by keeping low profile due to the suppressive government.


The six countries that mention by Antony are Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria and China. In these six countries, Cuba’s internet is the least developed and the reason is twofold. 1st reason are early 60’ is insanely criminal and 2nd reason is the fact that the Castro regime. The article show that most people do blog and generally speaking it’s fair privileged.


According to Wyld (2007), members of the congress, governors, police and fire departments are engage with blogging in order to direct contact with public. Therefore, internet has become a human rights issue nowadays and most of the human are blogging to tell others their stories. Blogging also become one of the engagements by the countries.
Differences of the culture also one of the matter that need to careful in order not to use wrong writing and language skill to tell the world audiences. According to Huckin, T. N., and L. A. Olsen. (1991), different countries had different culture, words and believed. It is very important for a writer to write something not to offend any others cultures or country. Some word maybe nice to a country but it is not guaranty to be nice in other country or culture.

Referencing

Christian Fuchs (2008), Internet and Society
-http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/i&s.html

Funnell (2008) and Antony Lowenstein (2008)
-http://www.readings.com.au/product/9780522854909/the-blogging-revolution
-http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2351985.htm

Huckin, T. N., and L. A. Olsen. (1991)
- http://www.mypdfsearch.com/search-pdf/Technical+Writing+and+Professional+communications,+Huckins,+Thomas,+McGraw-Hill/

Wyld,(2007)- journal of blogging revolution. The government in the age of web.

Good Document Design and Good Writing

From my group presentation, I understand that good document design helps the reader to understand more clearly with the context and visual. According to Schriver (1997), stated that complex graphics would bring major problems among unknowledgeable readers and a good document design should be incorporate both text and image to enhance the ability for the reader to remember or convey effective message to the reader.


According to Reep, Diana C (2006), white spaces in the slide is helping the reader to rest their eyes and direct them to the important point or information. It’s because most of the slides are too wide and will cause the readers to lose interest about it faster.
According to Berhardt Stephen (1986), wholes of the slide of the PowerPoint animation is used to make attention the audience or reader to take a look at. By using cues or signal or circle the graphic or words so that reader will make more attention into it.

Circle important words when presentation.





In order to write a good document design, the document must include necessary effects. According to Nielson (1997), readers who only schemes through and would be beneficial to them as main points. Presentation or slide must be short and informative, concentrate on the important words, circle the important parts, less words and more picture so that the readers would understand it more clearly and won't able to give up on reading on it so easily. Simple and direct are the most important for the good writing skills.


Reference

Schriver, K.A. 1997, ‘Chapter 6: Dynamics in document design’
http://myais.fsktm.um.edu.my/10761/

Kress, G. & van Leeuwen, T. 2006. Reading Images. Chapter 6: The meaning of composition

Reep, Diana C. 2006, Chapter 4: Principles of Document Design. Page 173-190.

Berhardt. Stephen. A 1986 - http://www.jstor.org/stable/357383

Nielsen, J 1997, How Users Read on the Web, viewed 10 September 2009, www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html

New forms of media publishing

The best answer for the latest trends of using media publishing are using www.youtube.com, www.twitter.com and www.facebook.com. This 3 media can give more information to public and most of the audience because it is worldwide. According to Walsh 2006, new technology form of media can be reach to the public within seconds. So, by using the trend of media, audience can be easily get what they want to know and all of it are updated.

The older way for media publishing is television, radio, movie, newspaper, magazines, books and most print publications. But now all have change, most of the people nowadays facing computer more than those other media. That why today all of the media started to change to computerized.


1. Online newspaper

( http://thestar.com.my/ )

people can online and view the news they wanted without buying any of the newspaper and it is updated.

2. Video media (Vlog)

( http://www.youtube.com )

Doctor admits vaccine is more deadly than swine flu on www.youtube.com

From the above, it is clearly shown that new media ecosystem are better than old media ecosystem. For my opinion, new media give more opportunities to the society but still it cannot be say that old media are outdated.


Reference

1. Walsh, 2006 - Australian Journal Of Language and Literacy.

2. Show about the online newspaper.
http://thestar.com.my/

3. Show about the video online.
http://www.youtube.com

types of blogging communities & methods to build blogging communities

Blog community refers to group of people or bloggers who interact or share the same interest networking online within limited set of technologies (White, N 2006). In blogging community, it can be created by enabling the comment option of the blog and let people build relationship or friendship with others.

Other than that, comment also can be done by relying to others comments on the blogs or forum (Mueller 2009). These are the way those people or audience can interact or communicate with each others in effective and efficient way.

For example, http://english.cari.com.my/ let people communicate through web forum and let them comment to the title they create to enable any of others people idea to their title.

this is how the website show that the comment that every person or audience that leave in the forum.

Reference

1.White, N 2006, Blogs and Community-launching a new paradigm for online community
http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs

2. English.cari.com.my
http://english.cari.com.my/viewthread.php?tid=5012&extra=page%3D1

3. Mueller 2009
http://blissfullydomestic.com/2009/how-to-create-community-on-your-blog-for-wordpress-users