Sum Up!

Well one i should say honestly I never like blogging. Because I am never good at wording and making phrases. Twitter are better than ever; Short and Simple yet it deliver to the viewer a.k.a follower in the community. Discuss before the effect of technology in term of e-book, Social network and the cultural boundaries. Those thing need to be further discuss so in future publishing and media will never face the same issues again. Though there is Act and social legal system it is not as strict as in other country. Malaysia do not band P2P software unlike in US those P2P software already been blocked to decreased unauthorized illegal document downloading.

As much as I don't like blogging, indeed digging down the issues faced nowadays make me more alert on do's and don't

Social Networking & Twitter Creditability

TWITTER

FACEBOOK

MYSPACE

THUMBLER

HOW RELIABLE ARE THEY?

You'll get update every second through your twitter or other social networking. With the use of twitter and social networking, print media and journalist is losing the credibility because those account owned by them self. So what news you want to believe in? I am pretty sure you get news from the owner itself rather than reading the newspaper and read magazine about gossip which we doesn't even know either it's true or not.

Nevertheless, these social networking giving people more opportunity to be closed with the idol and favourite artist. I am not going to deny that social networking development also bring bad impact to certain type of people.

Spread News in seconds with TWEETER

Spread news within seconds to the world with Twitter, Facebook and Myspace. Those social networking at first will benefit people in business world. It benefits them in term of marketing and advertising with low budget. Facebook is one of the faster social networking so far. Based on The Tech Journal, over 44% and 29% people in the world using Facebook and Twitter for social sharing.

Yet as for now, me myself personally love to use twitter for social networking. I get to choose who to follow and who’s not. So the privacy is there. Unlike Facebook, it is more open.

E-book: Convenient & Trendy Up to date

Source: http://www.techlearning.com/article/21130

Source: http://www.lightweightlaptops.co.uk/cheap-asus-e-book-to-rival-kindle-coming-soon

Source: http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006986.html

Technology giving human tasks more at eased. With the new invention of e-book make people can just carry hundreds of books in one small gadget call E-book. Up to date, based on Debrah Cornwall in her interview on E-books popularity on the rise, books currently make up between 6 to 7 per cent of the market in the US and Britain, more than half those sales are made within the first 24 hours of a book's release. The sales made through online downloading through e-book itself.

Indeed, piracy through digital e-book is also on the raised. Hackers will used any ways to get the free version of everything. Yet early this year in January, CNN has broadcast news about the same issues. Based from CNN.com Dan Brown's blockbuster novel "The Lost Symbol" hit stores in September, it may have offered a peek at the future of bookselling. Unfortunately,it is reported that in less ess than 24 hours after its release, pirated digital copies of the novel were found on file-sharing sites such as Rapidshare and BitTorrent. In just a blink of eyes, the copy has been downloaded for free more than 100,000 times all over the world.

The mess cause from file sharing software P2P doesn’t effecting top author to gain profit from the book selling through digital also through the book store. What sad is, piracy is unethical and against the law. So it shouldn’t be happening. Ezines Article and Ebook-security make the effort to guide public especially those underground writers to protect their copyright from being spread illegally.

References

1. Cornwall, D. (2010). E-books popularity on the rise. Available: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2849989.htm. Last accessed 16th Nov 2010.
2. Frisch, M. (2010). Digital piracy hits the e-book industry. Available: http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-01/tech/ebook.piracy_1_e-books-digital-piracy-publishing-industry?_s=PM:TECH. Last accessed 16th Nov 2010.
3. S Jay. (2004). How To Protect Your eBooks From Piracy And Copyright Infringement!. Available: http://ezinearticles.com/?How-To-Protect-Your-eBooks-From-Piracy-And-Copyright-Infringement!&id=2737. Last accessed 16th Nov 2010.
4. Anonymous. (2010). Protect ALL Your Ebooks and Prevent Ebook Piracy with the Click of a Button!. Available: http://www.ebook-security.com/. Last accessed 16th Nov 2010.

Cartoon That Shock The World

World has been shocked by the caricature published by Danish Newspaper 4 years ago. From article Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy described them as Islamophobic or racist argued that they are blasphemous to people of the Muslim faith, are intended to humiliate a Danish minority, or are a manifestation of ignorance about the history of Western imperialism.In the world of civilisation, Danish should go further research about culture and religious view before publish it to their newspaper and so do to the other 50 countries.

The 12 cartoons were drawn by 12 profesional cartoonist in Denmark. Whereby, most of them are regular political cartoonist for Danish newspapers. Four of the cartoons have Danish texts. One deliberately evades the whole problem, depicting a school child in Denmark named Muhammad, not the prophet Muhammad. One of the cartoons is based on a special Danish cultural expression, and one includes a Danish politician.

source: http://www.danzfamily.com/archives/2006/02/muslim_outrage.php

In my opinion, Danish might have less knowledge about Islam that makes them decided to sketch Prophet Muhammad caricature since they didn’t even know that is prohibited by Islam itself.

To support with that, Zimmerman and Perkin (1982), designing instructional graphics that must bridge cultural boundaries that made getting into dept into the knowledge, beliefs, and concerns of their audience and used what they learned to select symbols that were meaningful for their intended audiences.

As for this cased, Danish Newspaper neglected cultural boundaries in their publication. Even if it's not based on Islam I could say each and everyone stands up for their religion no matter. So culture and religion studies is a must.

References

1. Karen A. Schriver. (1997). The interplay of words and pictures. In: Karen A. Schriver Dynamics in document design : creating texts for readers. New York: Wiley Computer Pub.. Ch. 6, pp. 361-441.
2. Mares, P. (2010). The Cartoons that Shook the World. Available: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2010/2804643.htm. Last accessed 14th Nov 2010.
3. Anonymous. (2010). Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy. Last accessed 14th Nov 2010.

Blogosphere~

The size of current blogosphere?

Internet is getting wider coverage and even faster. Blogging is one of the trend in todays world. Up to 2009 according to technorati.com, they specified demographic for the blogosphere.

• Two-thirds are male
• 60% are 18-44
• The majority are more affluent and educated than the general population
◦ 75% have college degrees
◦ 40% have graduate degrees
◦ One in three has an annual household income of $75K+
◦ One in four has an annual household income of $100K+
◦ Professional and self-employed bloggers are more affluent: nearly half have an annual household income of $75,000 and one third topped the $100,000 level
• More than half are married
• More than half are parents
• Half are employed full time, however ¾ of professional bloggers are employed full time.

(Source: http://static.technorati.com/09/10/15/135/age-gender-firstblog-606x187.png)

The pie chart above shows the percentage of blogosphere in the year of 2009.

Apart from all this, the blog trend in Malaysia now is more on online businesses.

Designing your PowerPoint Presentation

On my 2nd post I have to discuss on how to have a good PowerPoint presentation. We must know the purpose of having a presentation is to deliver information. So by having PowerPoint presentation could help the audience to understand more on the topic that been present. Basically the contents in the PowerPoint presentation should be short and simple. It must only contain the keyword so the information in the slide is not overwhelmed to the audience.

Based on Anderson (1987) he emphasised on good document design must help readers read efficiently, strike out on most important contents. Also it must encourage reader to feel good about a communication. In other word PowerPoint should be like ’Match of the day’ content only the highlights of the presentation. So that it easy for audience to understand what you emphasized on your presentation rather than read the whole presentation slides.

I am going to give comment on this specific PowerPoint Presentation slides I have based on my group presentation I had last week.

Figure 1

Figure 2

In this specific slide (Figure 1 & Figure 2) even all of the slides (which there is total of 7 slides), there are a consistency but then the title is at the bottom. Wendy Russel explained in 10 Tips for Creating Successful Business Presentations in his second tip stated that slide layout is important this is to ensure that the slide is easy to understand. Title should be put on top of the slide followed by the content and also the important information should be put on top.

To be added in the slide do follow the tips stated by Wendy Russel and Zane L Marquez on How to Make a Good PowerPoint Presentation. As the point stated is easy to read and the background do have contrast with the font color

Hence other then the problem with the layout, I think that the slides is fine. The usage of graphic in figure 2 is not too much and will make audience understand more. Most people have photograpic memory. So it easy for the audience to capture the point of the presentation and memorise it.






References:

• Putnis ,P& Petelin, R 1996, Document design, Writing to communicate Professional communication : principles and applications, Prentice Hall, Sydney, pp.254-255


• Diana C, R Technical writing, New York : Pearson/Longman, c2006, 6th ed. New York.


• Wendy Russel, ‘10 Tips for Creating Successful Business Presentations’http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/powerpointinbusiness/tp/bus_pres_tips.htm> [Accessed 27 August 2010]


• Marquez, L 'How to Make a Good PowerPoint Presentation'http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Make-a-Good-PowerPoint-Presentation&id=4313178> [Accessed 27 August 2010]


• Guest Contributor '10 slide design tips for producing powerful and effective presentations'http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-22_11-6117178.html> [Acessed 27 August 2010]