Reflection

After making and posting blogs and combine the information together, what I think of making this blog is itsnt easy at all. Since Im quite new with blog thingy so I feel more changelings making this blog. As a blogger, we can’t simply just write about anything without putting some ethics on it because even though it is only making a blog but we have to realize what ever story/information that you post through blog it will be posting in website, meaning everyone in the world can see your blog easily. Therefore, a blogger have to be responsible in certain ethical obligation to the readers. The important thing is we can’t copy other’s work without mentioning the information of the authors or link due to avoiding a serious offence. The better way for blogger to copy other’s work is using quotation or photos in order to convince readers.

Angry Birds: 200m downloads are the tips of the mobile gaming iceberg

Due to arise of technology nowadays, many of company’s cell-phones are competiting to expel a new application inside the phone. Apple and Smartphone are the famous company phone nowadays. They have to come out with the new idea to increase the demand in order to making money. There are a lot of applications that can make demand higher one of them is games. Some of people can’t live without playing games aimed to release their stress. There is one game which riding up people demand such as Angry Bird. The angry birds phenomenon shows no sign of slowing up (Guardian.co.uk 2011).According to Developer Rovio Mobile (2011) state that the franchise has now generated more than 200m downloads across all platforms. With the latest result that Angry Birds Rio standing up 35m since the launch in March. According to Kevin George (2010) state that to moving from awareness and advocacy changes the mentality of which media channel used. Last but not least when you focus on from the beginning on creating a conversation about the brand between customers not just brand to customer, your  approach is more effective (Kevin George 2010).

Reference List

Boozalen 2010, “Sharpening the conversation”, online, viewed on 12 June 2011,

< http://www.boozallen.com/media/file/HD_Marketing_2010.pdf>

Guardian.co.uk 2011, “ Angry Birds: 200m downloads are the tips of the mobile gaming iceberg”, online, viewed 12 June 2011 < http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2011/may/19/iphone-game-stats>

Social media, cell phone video fuel Arab protests

Youth in the Middle East lately is protesting a video fuel Arab to social media, cellphone, and satellite TV. The video clip of protesting from youth, represented an insecure footage of a peaceful from people especially young man  

And image terrible slaughter which has been uploaded on facebook, youtube, twitter and so on. In Bahrain and Libya, graphic image and rare video of insensitive clearout by the protection forces on crowds of protesters achieved international disapproval for their government and further fuelled accepted anger in the streets (Daily News 2011). Moreover, the coverage to which social media contributed to the overthrowing of the leaders of Egypt and Tunisia and also protests of differing size and power  in Algeri, Bahrain, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Yemen is just a matter of debate or argument. Yet, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Libya’s Moamer Kadhafi has taken the threats facade by the Internet seriously enough, apparently, when they took the unusual step of endeavoring to cut their own people off the (Web Daily News 2011). According to Annabelle Sreberny (2010), saying that there is an important link between face-to-face politics and more technological-mediated communication. There are different strusture of repressive states, different histories of political action and differentiated approach to new forms of communication. Small media do offer immediacy and comprehensively like few channels before yet some new forms such as big media it tends to play significant roles in public opinion formation, different part of the world to each other (Annabelle 2010).

Reference List

Daily News 2011, “Social media, cell phone video fuel Arab protest”, online, viewed on 10 June 2011,

< http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=social-media-cell-phone-video-fuel-arab-protests-2011-02-22>

Small Media Initiative 2010, “Understanding Small media”, online, viewed on 10 June 2011,

< http://www.smallmediainitiative.com/abstracts/>

Egyptian newspaper under fire over altered photo

Recently, Egypt shocked with news that one of the famous daily Newspaper in Egypt Al-Ahram in which six edition. The issues is regarding Al-Ahram was publishing a photograph to suggest President Hosni Mubarak was leading Middle East for peace talks. The original image is represented 6 leaders which are President Barack Obama, Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian on a red carpet walking together and in the original picture was shown that Mr Obama is walking ahead and the rest are behind. In this case Al-Ahram was manipulating that Hosni Mubarak is the one who leading the way Mr. Obama trailing behind. Apart of this, Al-Ahram also putted a title in that paper saying “The Way to Sharm El-Sheikh” (BBC 2010). Result of manipulating a photograph of Mr. Barak Obama, many controversial that arise from various parties. On 6^th April, Youth Movement has incriminated the biggest newspaper in Egypt Al-Ahram that the paper was crossed the line and also they were being “unprofessional” for publishing the image of the leaders without mentioning the amendment (BBC 2010). Right after the accusation, Al-Ahram has replaced the image on its website with an image of the leaders gathering seated on the chairs in the Red Sea resort.

According to Walsh (2006, p.29) state that inferring image is unlike decoding words, it has different effects, image particularly has visual and imaginative level. Visual and imaginative level is vary from one person to another, as for some people the shoking people is no big deal, but obviously for all leaders especially Mr.Obama is such an unprofessional way to manipulate a picture without mentioning alteration.

Reference

Walsh, M 2006, 'Textual shift: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts', in Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 29, no. 1.

BBC 2010, “ Egyptian newspaper under fire over altered photo” online, viewed 10 June 2011, <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11313738>

Berita Harian issues public apology over tsunami cartoon

Berita harian as a one of Malaysia’s top news daily newspaper has apologized to public the world, especially to Japanese on its website and also through tweeter and Facebook, about the publication of cartoon depicting the devastating tsunami and earthquake which just had happen in Japan and killed thousands people The cartoon was represented the Tsunami and earthquake in Japan which shown the famous Japanese icon cartoon “Ultraman” running away from an oncoming Tsunami (The Star 2011). ­­­ Because the publication, there out coming protests from outsiders which is politicians and the public criticizing regarding inappropriate image which Berita Minggu published.  The reason why politicians and the public criticizing give some poor judgments are that they describe from the “Cartoon Tsunami” are not preferred and offensive.  Apart of this, Youth chief of Umno Khairy Jamaluddin  was giving some comment through tweeter, he stated that Berita Harian must apologies  for publishing the cartoon and also Elizabeth Wong the Executive councilor of Bukit Lanjan assemblymand sum Selangor was tweeted, saying that “the matter was not funny” (The Star 2011). According to Kress and Van Leeuwen (1998), image is a part of multimodal text because it is making representation. It means that image can also convey a message without text. Moreover, the arrangement and visual representations contribute to meaning.  Relating to image of cartoon Tsunami which Berita Harian published, the reader must have their own perspective to construe the image of the cartoon itself, as Kress and van Leeuwen agree that readers are mapping reading path before actual reading.  However, this issue can be related to one of cultural meaning aspects from intertextuality which will lead people to understand of cultural array of meaning making.  Shchirato & Yell (1996) state that discourse has an important function which is to express the meanings and values of the institution. Connecting to the issue, those authors illustrate that some discourses like religious discourse are strongly regulated through their personal institutions. However, even though the image over Tsunami cartoon it’s just an image, yet it has extremely different meaning and perspective from different social context.

Reference

Kress, G. & van Leeuwen, T. 2006, Chapter 6: The meaning of composition Reading images, Reading images, Routledge, pp. 175- 214

Shchirato, T. & Yell, S. 1996, Chapter 5: Framing Contexts, Communication and cultural literacy: An Introduction, Allen and Unwin, St. Leonards NSW, pp. 90-117

The Star 2011, “ Berita Harian issues public apology over tsunami cartoon”, online, viewed 10 June 2011, <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/3/14/nation/8262608&sec=nation>

a. Blog has current phenomenon and Benefit of Blogging Community

What is blog and why people use blog?
Blog is usually mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a type of hybrid diary site, even though there are as many unique type of blog as people are. People are maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably blogger at blogger. com (Marketing term 2011). Billion of people use this kind of service like Blogger to classify and speed up the publishing process. The activities of updating blog post is called blogging and the person who updates the blog is called blogger. Basically, people who are using blog mostly are teenager, they often talk about their self, daily life, every moments that they go through. Sometimes, people tend to publish their article or writing to the other's blogger or reader so that people can leave a comment or opinion about their post. But somehow, some people dont want people to know about their article so they tend to set their setting into private so that people wont read the blog.

Current Blogger and Blogging Trend

"Adopting an interdisciplinary scope, this paper presents a review of research on blogs and  blogging within the social sciences and the humanities. It maps out what kind of research has been completed, how it has been performed and what gaps that might need to be filled in this relatively new area of research. More specifically, the paper will analyze all articles on blogs and blogging published until 2009 and indexed by the ISI Web of Knowledge" (Stefan HRastinki, 2011)

The number of people using blog is increasingly. When blog becomes way to ups thats when people start using it. It is really convenience because people can express anything by writing something on the blog. For people who hard to express their feeling they tend to write about anything they want, because easy for them to spread out what do they feel since they cant exposes to anyone. In Indonesia, almost 70% of the people blog is about personal and the rest is about politic, business, fashion and many more.

Reference
Hrastinki 2011, Stefan Hranstinki Blog, viewed on 10 May 2011 <http://hrastinski.posterous.com/blogs-and-blogging-current-trends-and-future>.

Marketing term, What is blog, viewed on 10 May 2011 <http://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/blog/>.

b. Classification of Blogs and Opinion About The Most Appropriate Classification Approach

Blog are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site

"Mike Davidson"

There are many and different types of blog among society which are personal blog, fashion blog, business blog, politic blog.

Personal Blogging

                                      Radityadikablog, retrieved from blogspot on 10 May 2011

Personal blog is more like writing about your self, your life, and maybe some random topic if they dont run out of idea to write about. This blog is more emotional, it can be funny, sad or happy stories. It depends on the writer what they want to write about. Basically people who really like writing they tend to create their blog and become drama queen or king in the blog.

Business Blogging

                                      kaskus.com retrieved from kaskus website on 10 May 2011

This blog is more formal and professionals ranging from real-tors to lawyers and stock brokers in order to share their expertise and companies have exposed to the power of blogs to personally connect  with their customers. Usually this blog is used for people who interested in doing business. 

Fashion Blogging

                                        Fashioningblog retrieved from blogspot on 10 May 2011

Fashion blog is usually for women who really like fashion. This can help the reader to get the ideas on dressing up or what fashion style which In nowadays. Sometimes the blogger gives some experiment with clothes and upload to their blog. Besides, in this blog they can sales some their clothes as well.

Politic Blog

                                     Detik.com retrieved from detik.com website on 10 May 2011

I personal think that this blog is the most appropriate classification because this blog is involved members of parliament, political parties, government agencies, and activists using the blog to connect with their constituencies.  The style of writing is more formal and seems like this blog is a serious blog. The topic that they have been discussing is all about heavy topic.

Reference

'type of blogs', Wordpress, viewed on 10 May 2011, <http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/>.

C. Blogging Communities and Method To Build Them

 Blogging community is located in a number of groups, cities, and even regional centers. They might talk about what their blogs are talk about but the whole aim is to socialize, makes friend, and shares idea. They usually connect to the people who have the same opinion on a certain issues that can go board and its way interesting for the blogger to blogger and people to blogs. In Indonesia, we do have kaskus.com, detik.com, indowebster.com and many more.

Kaskus.com, retrieved from google on 10 May 2011

                                            Detik.com, retrieved from google on 10 May 2011

                                            indowebster.com retrieved from google on 10 May 2011


How to build a blogging community
When you have created a blog, the next step besides driving traffic to your blog is to build a reader community. A blogging community is a foundation to being a successful blogger. Not only you are showing up yourself, your product or services to the world but here you are also creating a name and reputation for who you are and what you have to say or share with. There are a several step to build up a blogger community which are

Step 1
Read other blogs. Once you read people's blog you may get ideas or feel what your blog is going to be and what you like.Reading blogs can help you starting points for when you feel you have run out of things to discuss with your readers.

Step 2

Leave comments on other blogs. Whenever you read people's blog, it would be great if you dont just only read the blog but leave some comment, because it seems you are leaving a calling card for people to find your blog. But remember as long as you leave your blog URL in your comment, it gives people away to find your blog.

Step 3

Reply to your comments. When people leave some comment on your blog posts, they obviously want to know they have been heard. But give some simple respond to them like "Thanks for visiting my blog" that kind of thing

Step 4

List your blog in directories.List your blog in directories.

Step 5

Write often. Basically, most professional bloggers will recommend you to post more that once a day. By having a so many posts per day you are giving your readers with variety and a chance to keep them at your blog longer.

Step 6

Makes your posts entertaining. Providing some entertain post to your reader to make keep them to read your blog without getting bored of it.

Step 7

Start marketing your blog. there is a way to market your blog by giving a signature link to your blog on message boards and forum, or you can also put a signature link in your email address.

There is one blog Indonesia that i have been read is Kaskus.com. This community basically talk about politic, event happing, gossip, sports and so on.


Reference


'How to build blogging community', eHow, viewed 10 May 2011 <http://www.ehow.com/how_2152382_build-blogging-community.html>.

d. News Media of Media Publishing

New media makes it possible for anyone to create, modify, and share content and share it with others, using relatively simple tools that are often inexpensive. New media can be define as interactive forms of communication that use the internet, including podcast, RSS feeds, social networks, text managing, blogs, wikipedia and many more. New media requires a computer, laptop or mobile tools which can be access to the internet. If it comes to unlimited access, meaning that people can go online through mobile or laptop ( blackberry, Iphone, Ipad, and so on )whenever/wherever they want. 

     blackberry&iphone. retrieved from http://www.thenextgreatgeneration.com/2009/11/breaking-blackberry-2/. accessed on May 8 2011

Laptop Vs Ipad. retrieved from http://www.hardwaresphere.com/2010/05/07/clamcase-case-will-turn-your-ipad-into-laptop/. accessed on May 8 2011

Social-networking or social network is a social structure which is formed of the nodes (which generally individuals or organization) that tied with one or more specific types of relationships such as values, visions, ideas, friends, and descendants

Social networking or social network is a social structure which is formed of the nodes(which are generally individuals or organizations) are tied with one or more specifictypes of relationships such as values​​, visions, ideas, friends, family/descendants, etc. Example of social-networking is Facebook, Twitter, Formspring, Tumbler, youtube, foursquare. These all can be categorized new media. Even though people tend to rely on new media to get all the information within a seconds but we cant deny that we still need the "old media" like newspaper and television. News media is very easy indeed for us because we can updates all the time as long as we have internet to access "them". But outside of it when we are on a go and we cant access internet newspaper and television are much useful to updates everything. 

Facebooklogo. retrieved from http://www.google.com. on 8 May 2011

                                                        Twitterlogo, retrived from google.com, on 8 May 2011

However, no matter what kind of media we use, but actually the functions are the same which makes it different is the features that they have. Talking about features that new media has is when it comes to "gossip" new media is much better than old media because it keeps update people to the latest news rather than newspaper, radio, or television. Only a second we can get everything and its really what people want to. 

Facebook, is a form of social media that intended to connect to friends, family, and business association. Facebook users usually creates their profile page that shows their friends and network information about themselves. While twitter is more like giving updates on everything such as what is happening in the world, gossip, what event is going on, that kind of thing. Yet, if you want to know where your friend is, or you want to let people know where you are, Formspring is the best way to check-in in everywhere you go through. 

these all social media that you can easily use your finger an "click" on it with mobile phone.

Reference

'What is New Media', 2011, in Aid.gov, viewed 8 May 2011 <http://aids.gov/using-new-media/index.html>.

'What is Social Networking', 2011, in Socialnetwoking.com, viewed 8May 2011 <http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com/>.

e. WHAT MAKES A GOOD PRESENTATION?

Presentation is an important form of communication. A good power point presentation is the one that convey the audience's attention without getting them bored to see the whole presentation. Knowing how to present the information is a key of presentation. In many cases, it is not what to say that makes the greater impression on the audience but how you say it and present yourself, and also to make appropriate use of visual. There are a several things that make a power point presentations  effectivity  such as use clear combination of color, have a good and clear points, simple but nice, suitable layout and transition. We also have to make sure that the message that being applied has to be clear and readable in order to make the audience can be easy to read and understand the message

Based on Presentation Zen (2011) state, saying that however as far as design is concerned it its worth not to judge in terms of " right or wrong" but rather in terms of what is appropriate or inappropriate". Sometimes people hard to remember presentation material text, but you can help the audience to understand easily by putting some picture that relevant of your presentation topic. Making a good power point presentation, we have to be more careful to choose convenient color of background and font in the slide of presentation. Font color, background color and the presentation content color should have a clear comparison in order to make the audience can see the slides easily.

To make a good presentation, we should have a good writing as well. According to Putnis, Petter &Peelin (2006,pg 237) writer who do deliberately break or manipulate conversion to convey a particular impact (and get away with it)  are writer who perfectly understand documents and maintain credibility. 

Reference 

Garr Reynold, 2005, "Presentation Zen", viewed 8 May 2011, <http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/09/whats_good_powe.html>.

Wiziq, 2011, " What Makes A Good Presentation", viewed 8 May 2011, <http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/6060-What-Makes-A-Good-PowerPoint-Presentation>

Putnis, Peter & Petelin, Roslyin, 1996, " Writing to Communicate" in Profesional communication, p.239.

PURPOSE

Good writing and good design  is one combination that match perfectly in making power point presentation. Therefore, i would like to discuss in-dept about understanding of how to combine good writing, and design within one package in order to make a good power point in presentation. This blog will be targeting for those people who are really interested to know how to make a good presentation in the future, especially for student and the office.