Monday, June 1, 2009

Media Publishing

New Forms of Media Publishing

With better technologies these days and the wide use of World Wide Web, the emerge of online newspapers, online magazine, vlog (video blogging), moblog (mobile blogging), and many other more forms of media publishing had influence the users widely today.

Is the internet taking over the print media?

According to Andrew West, a journalist who writes both for traditional newspapers and on-line publications in the United States "Now I still love the idea of writing in ink and paper, I mean I make my living writing for a newspaper, I’ve written books, but nonetheless this is a very exciting medium in the sense that it democratises the media."

Media journalists are still coping the balance between online and print, and much have actually move into the blogging world where they have much more space for their opinion and immediate feed backs from a wide range of audience.


MoBlog


Mobile Blogging (Moblog) is when user publishes post directly to the web using mobile phone. It helps bloggers to post write-ups directly from their mobile phone and it is also popular among mobile users that send email or MMS.

It is also helpful especially for travelers when there is limited access of the Internet connection. Travelers uses this as an advantages when they can shoot anything with a GPRS or WAP enabled phone which easily upload pictures with text descriptions directly to their blog.




References

Suad Amiry, Big Ideas, Viewed 1st June 2009, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bigidea/stories/s1485827.htm

Wikipedia, Mobile Blogging, Viewed 1st June 2009, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblog



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