New forms of media publishing

Facebook is a social networking that allows the people around the world to stay contact with each other. In nowadays, majority of teenagers and adults usually spend their time by surfing Facebook. Therefore, people in nowadays will think of doing small business in Facebook. However, it also a page where people can advertise and share anything they uploaded. They will be selling different kinds of product such as clothing, contact lens, slimming product and others.  The newest and famous trend in Facebook is majority of the young ladies selling cheap clothings and different products which are cheaper than the existing markets. The following link is about a webpage on how people sell clothes through Facebook. Happy Zakka Boutique This particular website is all about the cheap clothes that girls usually look for. 

References: 

1. http://www.facebook.com/7happyzakka

Blogging communities and the structure

Blogging community  is a group of communities which has the same interests which will share knowledge and ideas about what they blog. According to Bryan Haines, the study of 6 Ways to Build Your Blog Community which is the good tips for bloggers to build their own community. The 3 types of blogging communities that has been analyzed by Nancy White's are one blog centric community which discuss about the readers back to the earliest day where people start blogging. This particular blog is not only for a person but for the whole community. The commentors will start to share information with others via private email, instant messaging, and other forms which is easier to let them contact. For topic centric community, it deals with the groups such as travel blogger, youth blogger, food blogger and etc. They will do their best to attract more people to read their blogs like how to previous bloggers did. This topic centric basically has no single platform whereas it tends to link with all the related information such as other blogs. Some researchers thought that linking between blogs may visualize blog communities. Boundaried community is about the collection of blogs and the blog readers which is under the same platform. This kind of blog has the overall of ecosystem where it less concentrate on the RSS and cross linking. Therefore, readers may easily access the blogs. It divided into 3 typical ways which are the frequency of posting, popularity and interest as well as social networking to visualize relationship.  For example Global Voices, this blog falls under the category of topic centric community where they want to get mainstream media to pay attention to countries issues.

References:

1. Britta Kinkeldei (2007), Whitepaper Blog Communities, Forging Connections and Promoting Growth Through Blog Communities, viewed 25 August 2011

2. Bryan Haines, 6 Ways to Build Your Blog Community: Increase Your Reader Participation, viewed 25 August 2011

Classification of blogs & approach

For your information, every blogs have the different themes and background which represent different types of posting and blog. It can be classified with different categories such as sports and games, fashion, political, and etc. For example, http://morecredible.blogspot.com/. This particular blog is about the games which is latest or games whereby nowadays people are interested. Besides that, it also talks about the sports issue. Therefore, a person who loves about sport and games, he or she will basically design it with themes or layout which is under this category. And now, let's see how a fashion blog looks like. For example, http://youting-fashion.blogspot.com/. A fashion blog will usually looks girly and blink with all the details about shipping fee, rules and regulations, contact, and other relevant details. It contains a lot of the latest and trendy clothing for every different season. For the political issue, the blog will basically looks simple as it discuss about the serious issues of every country around the world. For example, http://vinospoliticalblog.blogspot.com/ which discuss about the political issue of the worldwide such as financial issues, public relation issue, government issue and etc. Since there are many classification of blogs, we can share our own thoughts for each post which we are interested with. So, from sharing thoughts, we can build a community which is known as blogging community.

Reference:

1. http://morecredible.blogspot.com/

2. http://youting-fashion.blogspot.com/

3. http://vinospoliticalblog.blogspot.com/

Current phenomenon & benefits to the community

According to the size of Blogosphere 2010, North America has 38% followed by US which has 33% and EU 19%. In one of the studies which is Blogging Phenomenon Sweeps Asia, the research findings stated the trend that has been discovered in Asia is most of the Asian have blogs. The prevalent blogs that Asians usually blog about is fashion blogs where people might get to know the trendy and latest fashion, personal blogs are most likely about the happenings of their daily life, and food blogs will be sharing recipes of delicious foods.The benefits of having a fashion blog can be found in this link, Online Fashion Marketing . This link is about outsourcing the fashion blogging to company specialising in online marketing, there are few benefits can be found. Besides that, benefits can be also found in a personal blog. Talkfreelance is a forum that allows the organisation to drop their comments and thoughts about a particular topic. Therefore this link is about what does the organisation comments about the benefits having a personal blog. Last but not least is the food blogs, besides learning the recipes from other people, we are health conscious as well. This link is about the benefits of the foods that we are consuming in our daily life.

References:

1. http://socialeasemarketing.com/2011/03/08/what-is-the-state-of-the-blogosphere/

2. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/blogging-phenomenon-sweeps-asia-56531722.html

3. http://www.online-fashion-marketing.com/2011/01/benefits-of-outsourcing-your-fashion.html

4. http://www.talkfreelance.com/showthread.php?t=54684

Purpose of the weblog

The main purpose of this blog is to target students are taking publication and design and the media people in the media world. Therefore, issue that will be discuss is mainly about the current design and publishing of a document.