Reflections of a Media Blogger

The cartoon above depicts what I have learnt through this assignment. Throughout the period of updating posts into this blog, I realised that a blogger has to be passionate about the topic he / she is writing about, and self-disciplined  enough to keep coming back to write more. A blogger has to put in a lot of effort to find ineteresting posts to write about, as well as know how to keep it interesting and different from other blogs.

Blogs have a different style of writing from traditional publishings. It is not newspaper report styled, as our opinions can be shown in our blog entries. It is also unlike websites, due to the fact that it can be updated as and when the blogger wants to.

To create this weblog, I had to take into consideration, the design factors. The background colours had to be co-ordinated with the blog layout as well as the font colours. The font had to be easily visible to facilitate reading and understanding. A blog with all words and no pictures or videos would be really boring. At the same time excessive graphics make it too confusing. The choice of graphics is important as the source proves the reliabilty of the pictures or videos.

I believe I have a better understanding of design and publishing in online media now. 

The Future of Blogging - VLog

Blogging always has a trend. At the beginning, there will be many posts. Subsequently, the frequency of the posts die down and becomes stagnant. Either that, or the posts tend to loose steam and start becoming mundane. And then, after some time, the whole trend starts again. It's like a cycle. 

So one may ask, "What is the future of blogging?"

Humans are always trying to make things better and invent new means of doing everything and anything. It is in their quest for novelty that Blogging evolved into Vlogging. So just what is Vlogging?

Though it has been around for quite a while now, surprisingly, many people are still unaware of Vlogging. Like how BLOG is the blend of the term web log, VLOG stands for Video Log. Makes sense, doesn't it?

In blogs, we write. In vlogs, we post videos of ourselves, and we talk. There are plenty of vlogs available in sites such as YouTube. The purpose is pretty much the same. However, the method of projecting our thoughts and opinion differ greatly. 

Here is a short video on the difference between blogging and vlogging, as interpreted by a deaf person. Interesting point of view. Check it out.

Pirates caught on the Net..

 

This image is taken from http://www.shawnhogan.com/2006/06/top-sites.html

The image above shows a breakdown of how Internet Piracy works. With the rise in technology and internet usage, piracy is a very real problem everyone is facing. Such large number of people use the internet and share information and files online everyday, that it is in fact very difficult to put a definite full-stop to online piracy. Piracy is another example of bad nettiquette. Government officials all around the world keep trying to come up with ways to discourage web users from choosing pirated files over original ones.

Blogger Facts -

Take a look at these piracy statistics and the effects of piracy in upcoming years.

This image is taken from: http://www.dgaquarterly.org/BACKISSUES/Spring2010/PiracyByTheNumbers.aspx