Photolog originated from the word photo blog, and its function is to share photo like a photo journal with unlimited text description (KeepandShare, 2009). According to Shriver (1997) both word and text must collaborate in order to bring meaning from the picture to the audience. Therefore, photolog allows user not just upload pictures but as well able to type in the caption of the particular event.
However, unlike in the old time photographers have hard time taking perfect and fantastic photo, but today thanks to the emergence of technology, photographers are much more convenient and easy to change the colour contrast and even adjust exact way they wanted.
According to Goldstein (2008) stated that Adobe Photoshop pamper many photographers, they don’t just ease the work of photographers but as well a solution to make the picture perfect.
According to Eitreim (2008) stated that he read a blog from a person who hire photographers for the wedding and it turns out to be disaster. Not that the composition of the photographer is bad but at least half of the picture taken were in black and white and edited. Therefore she had hard time searching and editing the pictures back to the original before uploading it to her photo blog. Therefore, it is not entirely good about editing because as it might not please someone especially clients with the outcome of the pictures.
Another good example has posted in youtube.com by Dove showing that beauty in today’s society has been distorted, and photographers lose their originality. Whether the pictures in photo blog is real or another form of cheat.
It is up to you to judge whether editing pictures is a positive or negative manner.
References
1. Eitreim, D 2008, I Hate Photoshop!, Ezine Article, viewed 22 May, < http://ezinearticles.com/?I-Hate-Photoshop!&id=989107>.
2. Goldstein, JM 2008, The 5 Biggest Pitfalls of Digital Photography, jmg-galleries.com, viewed 22 May, <http://www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2007/04/21/the-5-biggest-pitfalls-of-digital-photography/>.
3. KeepandShare 2009, What Is a Photo Blog?, Keep and Share, viewed 22 May, < http://www.keepandshare.com/htm/help3/photoblog_overview/help3_01.htm>.
4. Shriver, KA 1997, Dynamics in document design: creating texts for readers, The interplay of words and pictures, ch. 6, pp. 361-441.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Wow! many types of Blogs
Blogs are classified in different categories whether is about fashion, politics, religions, entertainment, lifestyle and sports, from there it is divided in another few more categories, for example, Sports category of blog has basketball, football, baseball and cycling (Technorati, 2009).
Today, many readers read the blogs that they find interesting and suit them, this is where blogging community comes. Blogging communities exist because of their similar interest and therefore literally connect with other users to discuss about it (Ivan, 2009).
For example, Malaysia former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir has his own blog and eventually created a blogging community whereby people especially Malaysians will discuss about the topic posted by him. In this blog the taxonomy is a form of pamphlet to literally promote their topic to the audiences (Simons, 2008). However based on my personal thought, I think that his blog is not my style and suitable for me therefore I don't dare to judge because some may say im bias.
Therefore in order to create a community, we must have what is called to connect with one and another. In this case using all sorts of communication with the user such as links and advertisement network will attract and connect from one and another places (Whyte, 2007).
One of the examples of blogging community is the Bing Community, whereby users and visitors are allowed to view pictures and have many links to other site as well.
References
1. Ivan, R 2009, Building a Community news Blog Day 1, Metaprinter, viewed 11 May, < http://www.metaprinter.com/2009/04/building-a-community-news-blog-day-1/>.
2. Ringmar, E 2007, Blogger’s Manifesto, Wimbledon Publishing Company, London.
3. Simons, M 2008, A Taxonomy of blogs, The Media Report, viewed 11 May, < http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript>.
4. Whyte, J 2007, Cultivating a Blog Community in 10 Steps – part 1, Search Marketing Standard, viewed 12 May, <http://www.searchmarketingstandard.com/cultivating-a-blog-community-in-10-steps-part-1>.
Today, many readers read the blogs that they find interesting and suit them, this is where blogging community comes. Blogging communities exist because of their similar interest and therefore literally connect with other users to discuss about it (Ivan, 2009).
For example, Malaysia former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir has his own blog and eventually created a blogging community whereby people especially Malaysians will discuss about the topic posted by him. In this blog the taxonomy is a form of pamphlet to literally promote their topic to the audiences (Simons, 2008). However based on my personal thought, I think that his blog is not my style and suitable for me therefore I don't dare to judge because some may say im bias.
Chedet.comTherefore in order to create a community, we must have what is called to connect with one and another. In this case using all sorts of communication with the user such as links and advertisement network will attract and connect from one and another places (Whyte, 2007).
One of the examples of blogging community is the Bing Community, whereby users and visitors are allowed to view pictures and have many links to other site as well.
References
Bing Community1. Ivan, R 2009, Building a Community news Blog Day 1, Metaprinter, viewed 11 May, < http://www.metaprinter.com/2009/04/building-a-community-news-blog-day-1/>.
2. Ringmar, E 2007, Blogger’s Manifesto, Wimbledon Publishing Company, London.
3. Simons, M 2008, A Taxonomy of blogs, The Media Report, viewed 11 May, < http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript>.
4. Whyte, J 2007, Cultivating a Blog Community in 10 Steps – part 1, Search Marketing Standard, viewed 12 May, <http://www.searchmarketingstandard.com/cultivating-a-blog-community-in-10-steps-part-1>.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Blogs is today's hip
According to Technorati (2008) the current size of people owning a blog in 2008 is 184 million and estimated 346 million blog readers. This has proven that blog as the current blog phenomenon and the number of owning and reading blog is still increasing.
Europe is one of the fashion icons in today’s society. Therefore without hesitation many designers uses blog to promote their product, inform users about fashion week and latest trend (Apparel1, 2008).
When it comes to Asia, the first thing can think about is culture. Therefore many blogs posted are all about culture and tradition not to forget travelling.
Malaysia current prevalent and is famous in politic blogs. According to Yeow (2008) Malaysia veterans politicians owned blogs to promote both opposition and government’s point of view.
Many people express their feelings or even voice out their opinion to the community or nation of what they think (BBC, 2006). Therefore it might be a threat to the politics, but at the bright side it somehow helps the politicians. This is because politicians are now much more versatile whereby they started to use alternative media such as blogs to promote their candidate.
‘’During the 2004 Presidential Campaign in the U.S., Gov. Howard Dean was the first presidential candidate to use blogs to promote their campaign’’ (Johny, 2007).
All the blogs stated above have one thing in common, which is multimodality. According to Walsh (2006) stated that multimodality is a form of text that has more than one mode. In this case the benefits of having blogs by Malaysian is it allows users to upload pictures, video and even mp3 music to entertain and inform of the latest trend in fashion, music, movie, even politics and economic to the community.
References
1. Apparel 1 2008, Fashion industry Network, viewed 4 May, <http://www.fashionindustrynetwork.com/profiles/blogs/fashion-trends>.
2. BBC 2006, Blogging ‘set to peak next year’, BBC news, viewed 4 May, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6178611.stm>.
3. Johny 2007, Why Are Blogs So Important, Computer User, viewed 4 May,.
4. Technorati 2008, State of Blogosphere/2008, viewed 4 May < http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere>.
5. Walsh, M 2006, The ‘textual stuff’: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 24-37.
6. Yeow, J 2008, Malaysians politicians take to blogging, Thaindian, viewed 4 May, http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/malaysian-politicians-take-to-blogging_10062197.html>.
Europe is one of the fashion icons in today’s society. Therefore without hesitation many designers uses blog to promote their product, inform users about fashion week and latest trend (Apparel1, 2008).
When it comes to Asia, the first thing can think about is culture. Therefore many blogs posted are all about culture and tradition not to forget travelling.
Malaysia current prevalent and is famous in politic blogs. According to Yeow (2008) Malaysia veterans politicians owned blogs to promote both opposition and government’s point of view.
Many people express their feelings or even voice out their opinion to the community or nation of what they think (BBC, 2006). Therefore it might be a threat to the politics, but at the bright side it somehow helps the politicians. This is because politicians are now much more versatile whereby they started to use alternative media such as blogs to promote their candidate.
‘’During the 2004 Presidential Campaign in the U.S., Gov. Howard Dean was the first presidential candidate to use blogs to promote their campaign’’ (Johny, 2007).
All the blogs stated above have one thing in common, which is multimodality. According to Walsh (2006) stated that multimodality is a form of text that has more than one mode. In this case the benefits of having blogs by Malaysian is it allows users to upload pictures, video and even mp3 music to entertain and inform of the latest trend in fashion, music, movie, even politics and economic to the community.
References
1. Apparel 1 2008, Fashion industry Network, viewed 4 May, <http://www.fashionindustrynetwork.com/profiles/blogs/fashion-trends>
2. BBC 2006, Blogging ‘set to peak next year’, BBC news, viewed 4 May, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6178611.stm>.
3. Johny 2007, Why Are Blogs So Important, Computer User, viewed 4 May,
4. Technorati 2008, State of Blogosphere/2008, viewed 4 May <
5. Walsh, M 2006, The ‘textual stuff’: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 24-37.
6. Yeow, J 2008, Malaysians politicians take to blogging, Thaindian, viewed 4 May, http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/malaysian-politicians-take-to-blogging_10062197.html>.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Document Design
What is a good document design?
Firstly the definition of document design according to Shriver (1997) it is the field concerned with creating texts integrated words and pictures. Comparison between my group and my individual presentation, I realize that there is one point, or what is known as element that I would probably not change, which is consistency. According to Reep (2006, pp. 134) there are four major elements to what is a good document design 1) Balance, 2) Proportion, 3) Sequence and 4) Consistency. The reason for me not changing the style of my presentation in future is due to that consistency helps readers emphasizing similar types of information and the similar importance of a document (Reep 2006). For example, my group presentation (Diagram 1) slide background (despite the first page), were consistent in away where the background images, layout and colour are consistent.
(Diagram 1)
However, my group presentation has a lack of balance, according to Putnis and Patelin (1996 pp. 254) the importance of balancing the document between images and text is to capture reader's attention. An example (Diagram 2) of my group presentation showing only one short sentence without any images, therefore audience might not understand the presentation because of not having any visual to support my saying.
(Diagram 2)
Similarly, Reep (2006, pp. 135) stated that the balance in a good document design should have equally balance of image and text. For that reason, I have changed my individual presentation to a more 'balance document'. In Diagram 3 shows the balance between texts and images whereby I can relate my points by using the images to support my saying.
(Diagram 3)
On the other hand, my group presentation uses capitalization incorrectly. According to Bird (2001), mixing up uppercase and lowercase letters is a pitfall for document design. Based on my group presentation (Diagram 4), the title is incorrect and is unsuitable as it can confuse readers and seemingly unprofessional.
Diagram 5
References
1. Bird, L 2001, ‘Avoid the mistakes of power point rookies’, Office Computing, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 62-65,.
2. Kathy, B 1997, ‘How to Optimize Projection Technology: Using Fonts, Graphics, and Color to Maximize the Effectiveness of Your Presentation’ Syllabus, viewed 21 April 2009, <http://its.uiowa.edu/support/srs/images/powerpoint_tips2.pdf>.
3. Putnis, P and Petlin, R 1996, ‘Professional Communication: principles and applications’, Writing to communicate, Prentice hall, Sydney.
4. Reep, DC 2006, ‘Ch 6: Principles of Document Design,’ Technical Writing, 6th ed., Pearson Edu Inc., New York, pp.133-170.
5. Schriver, KA 1997, ‘Dynamics in Document Design’, The interplay of words and pictures, Ch. 6, pp. 361-441, Wiley Computer Pub, New York.
Firstly the definition of document design according to Shriver (1997) it is the field concerned with creating texts integrated words and pictures. Comparison between my group and my individual presentation, I realize that there is one point, or what is known as element that I would probably not change, which is consistency. According to Reep (2006, pp. 134) there are four major elements to what is a good document design 1) Balance, 2) Proportion, 3) Sequence and 4) Consistency. The reason for me not changing the style of my presentation in future is due to that consistency helps readers emphasizing similar types of information and the similar importance of a document (Reep 2006). For example, my group presentation (Diagram 1) slide background (despite the first page), were consistent in away where the background images, layout and colour are consistent.
(Diagram 1)
However, my group presentation has a lack of balance, according to Putnis and Patelin (1996 pp. 254) the importance of balancing the document between images and text is to capture reader's attention. An example (Diagram 2) of my group presentation showing only one short sentence without any images, therefore audience might not understand the presentation because of not having any visual to support my saying.
(Diagram 2)
Similarly, Reep (2006, pp. 135) stated that the balance in a good document design should have equally balance of image and text. For that reason, I have changed my individual presentation to a more 'balance document'. In Diagram 3 shows the balance between texts and images whereby I can relate my points by using the images to support my saying.
(Diagram 3)
On the other hand, my group presentation uses capitalization incorrectly. According to Bird (2001), mixing up uppercase and lowercase letters is a pitfall for document design. Based on my group presentation (Diagram 4), the title is incorrect and is unsuitable as it can confuse readers and seemingly unprofessional.
(Diagram 4)
Therefore my individual presentation changes in away to avoid any mistakes I made. In Diagram 5 I use Broadway font style and did not mix the upper and lowercase, instead I uses Kathy's (1997) recommendation, sentence case whereby capitalizing the first letter of the phrase only.
Diagram 5
References
1. Bird, L 2001, ‘Avoid the mistakes of power point rookies’, Office Computing, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 62-65,
2. Kathy, B 1997, ‘How to Optimize Projection Technology: Using Fonts, Graphics, and Color to Maximize the Effectiveness of Your Presentation’ Syllabus, viewed 21 April 2009, <http://its.uiowa.edu/support/srs/images/powerpoint_tips2.pdf>
3. Putnis, P and Petlin, R 1996, ‘Professional Communication: principles and applications’, Writing to communicate, Prentice hall, Sydney.
4. Reep, DC 2006, ‘Ch 6: Principles of Document Design,’ Technical Writing, 6th ed., Pearson Edu Inc., New York, pp.133-170.
5. Schriver, KA 1997, ‘Dynamics in Document Design’, The interplay of words and pictures, Ch. 6, pp. 361-441, Wiley Computer Pub, New York.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
A Start
Probably when I was 6, my mom complained my drawings are gruesome. This is because my drawing consists of dinosaur, Godzilla, alien and war whereby human's blood splatter involved. What makes me draw all the violence? I was a little child! Thinking back, I was influenced by the images whenever I see one, I would stop and stare and if necessary understand the design. I even asked myself, how did it attract me? Why is the design in this manner? What does it mean?
(Picture taken from personal phone)
Today, my curiosity of issues in publication and design will be answer. For that, the purpose of this blog is not to educate but to share information of what I learned and understand. Issues in publication and design will discuss not just theoretically but practically, images that are publicize through the emergence of media- internet and blogs that communicates among community are essential due to its power to influence public. This blog is simply to those who have interest in 'reading' images and understanding the message conveyed and the way it is publicized.
(Picture taken from personal phone)
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