New forms of media publishing

New forms of media publishing

The new ecosystem will be richer, more diverse and immeasurably more complex because of the number of content producers, the density of the interactions between them and their products, the speed with which actors in this space can communicate with one another, and the pace of development made possible by ubiquitous networking (John 2006).

The new media technology today, internet has become the new form of media publishing. For example, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and alternative online newspapers have altered the roles of Journalism or communication. Although there have a lot of the new form media publishing, but for here, I choose to more concern about YouTube.

 Firstly, when someone asking what is about YouTube, I believe that, most of the people can answer it. The reason is, YouTube is a famous medium which can share and upload any video as you like in any time and any place with free. According to YouTube factsheet, their user base is broad in age range, 18-55, fifty-one percent of their users go to YouTube weekly or more often, and 52 percent of 18-34 year-olds share videos often with friends and colleagues. From the amount of audience shows, the chance to publishing of political in new media is not that surprising. YouTube is the easier way for us to click in the news that we want to concern on, by anytime and anywhere, especially, we can always watch the latest news with graphic and sound but not in words. The reason is, people nowadays are lazier to read the news by words to words, especially political news.

In understanding the newest trend in newest forms of media publishing (YouTube), journalists in print may get influences because of the trend. A new organism has arrived in our media ecosystem and existing organisms are having to accommodate themselves to the newcomer. And vice versa. Interesting, complex – and essentially symbiotic – relationships are emerging between the new medium of blogging and more conventional print journalism. My conjecture is that this is beneficial to both (John 2006).

Issues concerning the new trend

YouTube is the best way to publish all the video as we like, including those video clip about issues can publish it easily and fastest by using new media rather than print media. For example, a video showing about “girl throwing puppies into the river” is the most popular video clip that spreading in vlog, after the video uploaded, it has attracted over thousand of viewers to concern on. Especially for those commenters who dislike the attitude of that girl on animal abuse, there would like to post or upload their own comment video on YouTube to discuss about that case. In understanding, we know YouTube is the easier and fastest way to show what is happening around the world in time or any times rather than miss out the news from any print media or something that does not publish on print media.

http://www.christmastree.org/youtube.jpg

 Here is the video (girl throwing puppies into the river):

and another link that related with that case:

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/296836

References List

Video (YouTube)

• Youtube, 2010, ‘ girl throw puppies into the river’, viewed 29 September 2010,

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNo-dFGyh9c&feature=related

Whole video of girl throwing puppies into the river

• Digital Journal, 2010, ‘ Girl throwing puppies into the river’, viewed 29 September 2010,

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/296836

• Naughton, John 2006, ‘Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem’, viewed 29 September 2010,

              http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf

Blogging Community

Online community has been an important part of the Internet, mainly forming around email lists, bulletin boards and forums. In recent years, the ascendancy of blogs has introduced a new platform for communities (Nancy White 2006).

How do you create a blogging community?
According to Nikkis (ehow), it mention that create a blogging community have to:
 Refer to others blog and get the idea from them. You will also discover blogs that you share common interests with.

 Leave comments on other blogs. By leaving a comment, you are also leaving a URL for others to find you.

 Reply to your comments. When people comment on your blog or your posts, mean they have read and want a reply from you. A simple comment, "Thank you for visiting my blog" is enough to show people you are engaging with them.

 List your blog in directories. There are many blog directories on the Internet to choose from. A simple Google search for "blog directories" will bring thousands of results.

 Write often. In fact, most professional bloggers will advise that you post more than once a day. To get a chance for keep your readers longer, posting is the way to interest them by every day.

 Make your posts more entertaining. Firstly, we have to understand about your reader’s interest, and make an interesting topic to grab their attention. The important is, people are hated to read an article by words with words and using formal type in blog post, readers are prefer to read your opinion and the words shows personally .

 Start marketing your blog. To have a signature link to your blog on message boards and forums.

http://www.dom4j.org/photos/blogger.png

 The types blogging communities

Based on Nancy White (2006), in recent years, the ascendancy of blogs has introduced a new platform for communities. Blog based community shows up in three main patterns with a wide variety of hybrid forms emerging between the three. The Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community, the Central Connecting Topic Community and the Boundaried Community.

1: Blog Based Communities

By looking at the patterns we can start thinking about strategic approaches to blogs as a medium for community development. For example, technology/design - the impact of how the blogging tools are deployed and their impact on the community and etc.

2: Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community

·         This is the first form of blog based community to emerge as readers begin returning to early bloggers’ sites, commenting and getting to know not only the blogger, but the community of commentors, it is own by owner but they also can be own by more than one blogger to write.

3:Central Connecting Topic Community

·         This form is a community that arises between blogs linked by a common passion or topic. The boundary of the network is a combination of subject matter (domain) and membership (community).

4: Boundaried Communities

·         The chance to create a blog is by the members register and ‘joins’ the community. This boundary makes them the closest form to traditional forum based communities. For examples the sides that youth usually go, MySpace.com, Yahoo 360, March of Dimes, Share Your Story, and Farmer’s (2006) Australian free educational blogging sites Edublogs, ESLblogs, Uniblogs and Learnerblogs.

Structure of one blogging community

From the social networking started in our social life, everyone starting to create their own blogging community as a part of their life. The most famous news blogger in Malaysia Jeff Ooi produced a lot of local news and voicing out his opinion to shows human rights, besides that he is also dare to criticism on the news that no local newspaper dare to publish or voice out. According to Onn Yeoh 2005, Ooi is hardly a traditionalist but his blogging style follows the classic blogging formula of Excerpts + Links + Commentary, initially used by tech geeks in the late Nineties when they wanted to share information and articles they found with other geeks.

So that, the main audience mostly is the citizen in Malaysia and those pro government to focus what he is really comment about. Why he becomes a famous blogger in Malaysia, the reason is, he creates a thing that less even none people are dare to do, but most of the people would like to cover on it.

References List

·         The knowledge Tree, 2006, ‘Blogs and community- launching a new paradigm for online community’, viewed 28 September 2010

http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community

• eHow, 2008,’ How to Build a Blogging community’, viewed 28 September 2010 http://www.ehow.com/how_2152382_build-blogging-community.html
• Oon Yeoh, 2005, ‘ Jeff Ooi’, viewed 29 September 2010, http://oonyeoh.squarespace.com/chrome/2005/12/3/jeff-ooi-screenshooter.html
• Asian correspondent, ‘Jeff Ooi Blog’, viewed 29 September 2010, http://asiancorrespondent.com/jeff-ooi-blog/

Classification of blogs

Classification of blogs & opinion about the most appropriate classification approach

Classification system

Blog can be classifying into many different type to full fill different interest of audience. The classification types include:

Subject matter:

1.    Politics – Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak (http://blognajib.blogspot.com/)

2.    Fashion- Vivi shop (http://vivi-shop.blogspot.com/)

3.    History – Malaysian Economy History Blog (http://malaysiaeconomy.blogspot.com/)

4.    Law- law blog (http://www.lawblog.com/)

5.    Food – masak-masak (http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/)

Device:

1.    Moblog (mobile blogging)- Flickr (http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/12/)

Media type:

      1. Vlog (video logging)- YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/)

      2. linklog (Link or URL)- currybetdotnet (http://www.currybet.net/delicious.php)

      3. Sketchlog (about graphic, sketches, art) –deviantART (http://www.deviantart.com/)

      4. Tumblelogs (Link with media mix) - Nay, a tumblelog (http://a.tumblelog.com/)

Status of publishers:

1.    Business blog- NRG blog business-networking (http://business-networking.blogspot.com/)

2.    Corporate blog-  Redfin Corporate Blog (http://blog.redfin.com/)

Identifying unique type and compare the classifications

As we know most of the blogs are combinations of the styles, types which makes identifying unique types difficult. For example, to differentiate the blog of linklog and thumblelog is the hardest. The reason is, the type between both of them shows similarity, especially both of them are using the link to view your favorites post. For easier way to differentiate the type of the blog, we have to more focus on the style, graphics, photos, format and their target audience. For example, if the blog are uploaded the photo about cloth and fashion with clearly information and the most detail of the cloth, so which mean it is a fashion blog. 

Blog

What is blog?

In 1997, Jorn Barger is the first users and creator of weblogs. In 1998 there were just a handful of sites of the type that are now identified as weblogs (so named by Jorn Barger in December 1997) (Blood, 2000). For now, weblogs is becoming a diary for people to share about their daily life, a discussion station, or a market to create business.

What’s the size of current blogosphere?

Since 2004, Technorati is a website known generally to state out the rate, and analyzing the trend of Blogosphere every year. In that study shows that, the rate of the Blogosphere had growth every year.

According to Technorati 2009, based on the survey demonstrates shows, the growth of the rate in blogosphere is influencing the way information from business to goes well in communities. Every year, during the time of revolutions and elections were organized by blogs, the strongest and the highest rate of the Blogosphere, bloggers are blogging more than ever.

Technorati 2007 is tracking over 70 million weblogs, about 120,000 new weblogs being created worldwide each day and it has about 1.4 blogs created every second of every day.

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As we all know, the size of the blogosphere will only increase in everyday, the chance to get down the rate are barely.

What’s the trend in eg. Europe, Asia & Malaysia?

There are so many different kind of social networking around us, for example: the most popular social networking which people like to log in in every time and every second - facebook, twitter and many others, because of this, it may affect the size of blogoshpere. Based on (Technorati 2009), the entire blogosphere, with a focus on professional bloggers that founded is:

• Professional blogging activities
• Brands in the blogosphere
• Monetization
• Twitter & micro-blogging

What types of blogs are prevalent in certain countries?

According to Pew Internet, in UK, the majority of the bloggers like to describe about their life and experiences as their primary topic, but in the topics of politics and government are came in second. While in Malaysia, according to Press Microsoft Malaysia 2006 said that, entertainment and social connection is the reasons to make them blog, (63%) for entertainment, and 49% for a connection with their friend and family. In India, majority of online users reading blogs to stay informed about world events. The most they enjoy to read is about technology (Dikshit 2006).

What are the benefits of those prevalent blogs (as above) to the community, eg. benefits of political/ social blogs in Iranian or Malaysian context?

Why political and social blogs brings benefits to Malaysian? It’s giving us a chance to voice out our opinion and what citizen need to against the government with a simple speech and comment (human rights). Besides that, government can more understanding about human rights easily, so that, it is a win- win situation for us to create a blog.

References List

1. Microsoft Press Malaysia, 2006,' Women Rule in Malaysian Blogosphere', viewed 28 September 2010

http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/press/archive2006/linkpage4337.mspx

2. Nevillehobson, 2006, 'Latest blog trends from Pew Internet', viewed 28 September 2010 http://www.nevillehobson.com/2006/07/19/latest-blog-trends-from-pew-internet/
3. The Hindu, 2006, 'Interesting blogging trends in India revealed in new survey  http://hindu.com/2006/11/28/stories/2006112800452200.htm

    4. Technorati, 2009, 'State of blogosphere 2009', viewed 28 September 2010

         http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2009-introduction/