This is the very first time for me to create a serious weblog and I found out a lot of benefits from creating this blogs. I have gained a lot of experiences after creating this blog. Before this serious weblog was set up, I always thought blogging is a waste of time. I never had, or even visited any blogs before this. These are the few reasons why I had a lot of hardships while creating this serious blog. The template and layouts were complicated until I found my way around.
The few things that I've learnt and experienced was to create a new blog, to improve my writing habits and style, and to update myself on the current issues in the media and publishing world.
I realized that blogging is not easy as it seems. It takes a lot of effort and time to maintain this serious weblog. To be an efficient blogger, i needed to be consistent on my postings and be updated of the issues around me as well. As someone new to the blogsphere, i realized a few points about blogging:
1. I should not use my blog for defamation purposes.
2. Plagiarism is an offense, eventhough it is for casual commenting.
3. Bloggers should be ethical when it comes to reporting on a certain issue.
4. A respect to others is also a must!
Finally to conclude, i realized that blogging isn't that silly and a waste of time after all!
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Cyberwars...
the news article entitled Google makes friends with network sites to battle Facebook, published on 2 November 2007. It is about Google, one of the famous search engines in the cyberworld teamed up with MySpace and Bebo to go up against Facebook for the social networking market. For further information, please click here.
Facebook, seems to be one of the hottest trends in cyberworld now and many other large corporations such as Google, Friendster and more will see Facebook is their competitor and strategies and plans are coming out to compete and stand out among the competitors.
Each of the web communities have their own strategies and they provide people a very good website and functions. There is no doubt that their contribution towards the society is huge and leads for a better lifestyle. According to Walsh (2006), the technological differences such as frames, hyperlinks, navigation bars, menu buttons, use of cursor are designed to assist the reader's learning, to attract and to maintain interest. Just like what Walsh has said, the main point that make those web communities successful is their very useful functions provided in their webs and the user-friendly features in their webs. The services that provided by those web communities are welcomed and accepted by the people.
In the world of business, an organization needs to work with another organization in order to compete with another organization. In this case, Google sees Facebook as their competitor although Facebook is still new in the cyberworld. Strategies and planning were prepared by in-house analyst of Google and network marketing analyst to handle the situation and stand against with their competitors.
These types of news articles are commonly seen in newspaper and competition between organization to another brings more choices apportunities to the consumers.
References:
Guardian Unlimited
[Online, Accessed on 3 November 2007]
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/02/google
Walsh, M 2006, ‘”Textual shift”: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts’, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 24-37.
Facebook, seems to be one of the hottest trends in cyberworld now and many other large corporations such as Google, Friendster and more will see Facebook is their competitor and strategies and plans are coming out to compete and stand out among the competitors.
Each of the web communities have their own strategies and they provide people a very good website and functions. There is no doubt that their contribution towards the society is huge and leads for a better lifestyle. According to Walsh (2006), the technological differences such as frames, hyperlinks, navigation bars, menu buttons, use of cursor are designed to assist the reader's learning, to attract and to maintain interest. Just like what Walsh has said, the main point that make those web communities successful is their very useful functions provided in their webs and the user-friendly features in their webs. The services that provided by those web communities are welcomed and accepted by the people.
In the world of business, an organization needs to work with another organization in order to compete with another organization. In this case, Google sees Facebook as their competitor although Facebook is still new in the cyberworld. Strategies and planning were prepared by in-house analyst of Google and network marketing analyst to handle the situation and stand against with their competitors.
These types of news articles are commonly seen in newspaper and competition between organization to another brings more choices apportunities to the consumers.
References:
Guardian Unlimited
[Online, Accessed on 3 November 2007]
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/02/google
Walsh, M 2006, ‘”Textual shift”: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts’, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 24-37.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
The revolution of online video...
This is a news article entitled "Online video revolution", published on 27 September 2007. Online videos are one of the hottest trend in our society now. Take a look of YouTube, it is an online video sharing website and it is the most successful website nowadays. The news article talks about online video being the hottest marketing tool for businesses to promote their products and services in a cheap and effective way. To get a read on the original news article, click here.
There are million types of online videos on the internet today and there is no doubt that online video are very much welcomed by the people in the society now. But what makes online videos so successful and accpeted by every different type of people?
People have high demands for information and online videos would definitely fulfill their needs. On an Internet webpage, we can surf the net and reach everywhere we want to with no boundaries. According to Walsh (2006), an internet reader's pathway can be multi-linear and multi-directional. Internet users are able to take the cues from a homepage to navigate to multiple sites with non-linear pathways. As what Walsh said, that is the reason why online video is becoming the hit in society now. People can watch online videos and get information in the same time and all they need to know is get to online only. Hyperlinks are the 'cues' to lead people to more and more information.
Online videos can be a tool of advertising and it's much more lower cost than others. This is another reason why it is so welcome by every people and it becomes the trend nowadays.
Easy, efficient and it's better than a print ad!
Here's an example of an online video. Shown in the video is an advertisement for Honda.
References:
news.com.au
[online, accessed on 1 November 2007]
URL: http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,22490558-5012427,00.html
Walsh, M 2006, ‘”Textual shift”: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts’, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 24-37.
There are million types of online videos on the internet today and there is no doubt that online video are very much welcomed by the people in the society now. But what makes online videos so successful and accpeted by every different type of people?
People have high demands for information and online videos would definitely fulfill their needs. On an Internet webpage, we can surf the net and reach everywhere we want to with no boundaries. According to Walsh (2006), an internet reader's pathway can be multi-linear and multi-directional. Internet users are able to take the cues from a homepage to navigate to multiple sites with non-linear pathways. As what Walsh said, that is the reason why online video is becoming the hit in society now. People can watch online videos and get information in the same time and all they need to know is get to online only. Hyperlinks are the 'cues' to lead people to more and more information.
Online videos can be a tool of advertising and it's much more lower cost than others. This is another reason why it is so welcome by every people and it becomes the trend nowadays.
Easy, efficient and it's better than a print ad!
Here's an example of an online video. Shown in the video is an advertisement for Honda.
References:
news.com.au
[online, accessed on 1 November 2007]
URL: http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,22490558-5012427,00.html
Walsh, M 2006, ‘”Textual shift”: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts’, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 24-37.
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