Screen vs. print document design

From the point of view of Jakob Nielsen (1997), really good writing- you don’t see much of that on the web. Meaning to say that people usually do not read on the web, they just simply scan through the information in the web. This might due to a lot of reasons such as the improper way of the designation of the web. In terms of scanning document, it involves elements like headings, fonts, bold, italic, colours, font size, bulleted list, table of contents and etc. It is good to include hyperlink as this provide an easy way for readers to get information.

However, too much hyperlinks would also brought negative outcome because it might distract people concentration in focusing in one part. Additionally, text should be scannable and concise so that it wouldn’t take too much of the readers time to scan through the text. When talk about graphics, it must have complement with the content.

Screen Document

Print Document

References:

John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen(1997), Conciese, scannable, and objectives: how to write for the web, useit.com, Viewed 26 August 2011, <http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/writing.html>

Reep, Diana C 2006, Technical Writing: Document Design, CH.6, pp133-172

News forms of media publishing

The combination of digital convergence, the speedy development in personal computing and global networking has changed the communication environment into a new technology era. The trendiest social networking now is Facebook. Facebook has more than 750 million active users around the world. This social networking service could allow users to connect with each other, get various kind of information like news and etc. Besides, another major use of Facebook is to open up a page organizing by workplace, universities, companies and other characteristics in order to allow people to acknowledge the information. Other than that, we can see there were a lot of online selling page in Facebook. These included cloths boutiques, accessories, hand phone accessories and etc. People are now busy enough to actually spend time to go for the shopping mall as there are issues like traffic jamming, finding parking, and so forth. Hence, most of the people are now rather to make purchases from online website and whatever blog page. Below is the example for the online businesses that can be found in Facebook.

Reference:

Social networking page

< http://www.facebook.com/MOBILE.ACCESSORIES>

Blogging communities & structures

Blogging communities represent the group of communities that come along to share their knowledge and experiences about blogging. According to John D. Leavy, to build blog readership, marketing strategies has to be invoke to gain the web community’s acceptance and readership. He suggested there were six powerful ways to build blog readership. He emphasized that it is also important to be passion, conviction, creativity and sweat in order to be a good bloggers.

In Nancy White’s article, there are 3 types of blogging communities which include of the one blog centric, topic centric community, and boundaries community. The one blog centric means that the readers will actually turning back to the previous or early bloggers’ sites and this involves the community of commentors as well. Secondly, topic centric community consider as a form that involving of food, mummy, travel, and political bloggers. People will definitely find more specific niches and interests due to the rich network of perspectives as readers have many views on an issue.

Moreover, it has no technological platform for topic centric but information are linking with each other by just simply click on the blogging link. Boundaried Communities are typically having built in tools such as social networking, discussion boards, features, wikis and instant messaging. These communities’ internal connections could be faster as it has no RSS and crossing linking. Bloggers could exercises the power in boundaried communities by frequency of posting, social networking as a prove to know who placed the comments on whose blog, and popularity and interest to find out the numbers of comment that we get.

References:

John D. Leavy, 13 Jun, 2011, Six powerful ways to build your blog readership, Business to community.

<http://www.business2community.com/social-media/six-powerful-ways-to-build-your-blog-readership-038940>

Nancy White, September 2006, Blogs and Community – launching a new pradigm for online community, the knowledge tree, An e-journal of learning innovation.

Classification of blogs

As we know, every blogs have different categories of classifications. It could be political, fashion, social, news, advertisement for products, enterprises, sports etc. Besides, blogs could be created as creative as possible in terms of themes, backgrounds, video, music, and pictures.

This is an example for the games that posting in the blog page. People can look for different games through here and the games have contributed to the components of actions, adventures, racing, skill, sport and etc. From the page, it also contain of video for us to view on. http://www.theblogfullofgames.com/

Following of the news blog, this particular blog is about the news that happen in Malaysia. This blog displayed a lot of news where people who are busy now days can find themselves convenience from gather news information from the blog rather than to spend another time to read the newspaper. http://malaysia-today.net/

Now we look into the fashion blog where this also included the enterprises category. This page is usually attracted most of the female. This blog are usually created in a creative way such as the colours, text and etc. Details are given lucid as this is contributed to business and enterprises issues. From there, people could find a lot of trendy and latest cloths seasonally. http://www.qqbabyshop.com/category.php?id=76

Next, the link given below is the about the blog for politics. In particular, this blog discuss variety of issues such as the environmental issue, economic, social, government, and financial issues. http://bluntpolitics.blogspot.com/?expref=next-blog

As there are a numbers of classifications of blogs, we should have to build a blogging community in order for us to share our thoughts.

Blogs as current phenomenon & benefits to the community

According to the size of blogosphere in 2010 edition, North America has the highest percentage shared of 38%, US shared 33%, EU 19%, APAC 8% followed by South America is 2% which has the lowest concentrates of bloggers. It has been shows that majority of the bloggers are those who are in graduate degree followed by the college graduate. This might due to the reason of most of them are taking part of the publishing and design subject. Besides, some might use blogs as their interest or many other possible reasons. Findings shows that 34% of the bloggers are blog for fun, 38% plan to make money, 15% of them use it as their supplementing my income, 4% blog full-time for their organization, whereas 9% of them blog full-time for their own company.

Research of blogging Phenomena Sweeps Asia stated that Asian have the highest rating of bloggers. The prevalent blogs in Malaysia, Asia, and Europe are included the fashion blog, personal or social blogs, and travel blogs. People are now cannot prevent from knowing what is happening in their daily life, the trend of fashion, new food or restaurants, relevant events and so forth.

As we are now living in an environment dominated by internet, blogs play clear role that could people could access to information and the means of communication. Community could then gain knowledge once they enter into the blog web. From this, people could save more times in doing the variety of things as once they online, they could get any information they want rather than viewing into television broadcast or newspaper.

References:

Technorati: State of blogospehre 2011, viewed on 25 August 2011,

<http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2010-introduction/>

Alinta Thornton, Does internet create democracy? viewed on 25 August 2011,

<http://www.zipworld.com.au/~athornto/thesis2.htm#top>

Purpose of the blog

The main purpose of this blog is to target the audiences such as students of publishing and document design as well as those people who are taking part in the field of media world. Now a day, it is known that publication and design is important as the technology is getting advanced.