People has their own purpose to write a blog, and it has different types of blog depends on the interest and target audience. According to media analyst, Margaret Simons (2008), blog can be classified as 9 different types. The first will be Pamphleteering blog, Digest blog, Advocate blog, Mechanics, Exhibition blog, Gate watcher, Personal blog, Advertisement and lastly new blog.
Furthermore, Misty Belardo (2010) also classified different types of blog which are Collaborative blog, Travelling blog, Tutorial blog, Current fashion blog and also Personal blog.
Comparison between the 2 classification above:
In my opinion, the classification from Simons is more specific compared to Belardo because she has narrowed down the topics unlike Belardo the topic such as Personal blog is more general.
Moreover, it has different type of audience because Simons has more specify type of readers depends on what topic of the audience is searching for such as news blog, diary or advertisement. On the another hand, Belardo blog classification has more general because it concentrate certain type on blog such as Fashion blog, Travel blog or Tutorial Blog.
References:
Simons, Margaret, 2008. Towards a taxonomy of Blogs. [online] September 11th 2008.
Available at: <http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-0> [Accessed 24th August 2011]
Belardo, Misty, 2010. The 5 Types of Blogs | Which One Suits You Best?. [online]. Available at: <http://www.inkrebels.com/insp/the-5-types-of-blogs-which-one-suits-you-best/> [Accessed 24th August 2011]
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Blogging Phenomena and Benefits to the Community
The blogoshpere has made up all blogs connected to each others as a social network, which the blogger can read, write and comment on them. Blogoshpere is the realm of the Internet blogs and to people to read and write them.
According to Sifry (figure 1), Technorati is tracking over 70 million weblogs, and in worldwide about 120,000 blogs was created each day.
Mobile blogging was the trend on 2010 based on Technorati's report. There is 25% of all bloggers are already using their mobile phone as a tool for blogging. Bloggers that reported Smartphone is a device that changes the way they blog is about 40% of them, they can even blog more fast by just few tap or few click. This shows that more websites customized for mobile platform. It would have social media application that integrates with the blog.
TheStar newspaper (2008) reported that the most highest active bloggers in the world was Malaysia, then the next country was Indonesia and the European Union. Also, Dr Abu Hassan Hasbullah (2008) from University Malaya saying that even nowadays 70% of the election results were influenced by blogs.
Moreover, the types of blog are prevalent in malaysia are about writing personal stuff (28%),
politics (16%) and technology (16%). Blog can be powerful tools that can influence people especially social blog or political blog. According to Gaman (2008), kennysia.com was ranked top 1 as most popular blogger in Malaysia. He is a full time blogger, who spend most of his time writing a blog. There are always have positive and negative feedbacks from the readers, and it helps the community to have different point of view.
The prevalent blog can bring benefits to the community because it can voice out their own opinion and share their point of view to the community. Blog can be part of the news, if the source has citation or credibility from the original author. It can bring latest information to the community and also interactive comment with the readers.
References:
Sifry, D.,2007. The State of the Live Web. [online] Available at: <http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html>[Accessed 24th August 2011]
Sobel, J. State of the Blogosphere 2010 Introduction. [online] Available at: <http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2010-introduction/>[Accessed 24th August 2011]
Anon., Blogging in Malaysia ranks among highest in the world. The Star Online,[online] Available at: < http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/4/3/nation/20827588&sec=nation> [Accessed 24th August 2011]
Gaman. 2007. 50 most Influential blogs in Malaysia. [online]. (Updated 6 February 2007) Available at: <http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/>[Accessed 24th August 2011]
Figure 1: Weblogs cumulative from March 2003-March 2007
(Source: Technorati)
Mobile blogging was the trend on 2010 based on Technorati's report. There is 25% of all bloggers are already using their mobile phone as a tool for blogging. Bloggers that reported Smartphone is a device that changes the way they blog is about 40% of them, they can even blog more fast by just few tap or few click. This shows that more websites customized for mobile platform. It would have social media application that integrates with the blog.
TheStar newspaper (2008) reported that the most highest active bloggers in the world was Malaysia, then the next country was Indonesia and the European Union. Also, Dr Abu Hassan Hasbullah (2008) from University Malaya saying that even nowadays 70% of the election results were influenced by blogs.
Moreover, the types of blog are prevalent in malaysia are about writing personal stuff (28%),
politics (16%) and technology (16%). Blog can be powerful tools that can influence people especially social blog or political blog. According to Gaman (2008), kennysia.com was ranked top 1 as most popular blogger in Malaysia. He is a full time blogger, who spend most of his time writing a blog. There are always have positive and negative feedbacks from the readers, and it helps the community to have different point of view.
The prevalent blog can bring benefits to the community because it can voice out their own opinion and share their point of view to the community. Blog can be part of the news, if the source has citation or credibility from the original author. It can bring latest information to the community and also interactive comment with the readers.
References:
Sifry, D.,2007. The State of the Live Web. [online] Available at: <http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html>[Accessed 24th August 2011]
Sobel, J. State of the Blogosphere 2010 Introduction. [online] Available at: <http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2010-introduction/>[Accessed 24th August 2011]
Anon., Blogging in Malaysia ranks among highest in the world. The Star Online,[online] Available at: < http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/4/3/nation/20827588&sec=nation> [Accessed 24th August 2011]
Gaman. 2007. 50 most Influential blogs in Malaysia. [online]. (Updated 6 February 2007) Available at: <http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/>[Accessed 24th August 2011]
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Purpose of my blog
Hi readers, the purpose of this blog is review on the issues regarding on media publishing and design issues. Also, it would help me to understand relevant theories and concept of publication and design. For example, a good design may not be delivering to the correct audience if you don’t understand the concept of the publication. In the field of media or communications, my target audiences would be student or professional and they could find this blog as a reference.
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