New Media Publishing

The evolving user generated media has become a major publishing trend and it will also effect our professional publishing trend. It has given birth to new media.

"User-generated media is creating new patterns and rhythms in content aggregation and composition that capture the pulse of human intellect in ways that are oftentimes fundamentally different than today's professional publishing methods." (John Blossom 2005)

As specified by wikipedia,
a. Device/media types of blogs:
• Moblog – mobile blogging, e.g. mobile.antonypranata.com
• Vlog – video blogging, e.g. askaninja
• Splog – spam blog, e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_bloghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_blog
• Linklog – URLs (hyperlinks) blogging, e.g. www.geekhideout.com/wlog.shtml
• Sketchlog – sketch blogging, e.g. Karin Rindevall’s sketch log
b. YouTube
c. Online newspaper
d. Online magazine
e. Online books

example of vlog

The availability of tools online are one of the reasons why this new form of media publishing is existing. Eventhough each one differs in quality all of them show that this form of publsihing will continue to grow and remain a dominant role in the media as it does today.

References

J. Blossom, (2005) User-Generated Media And Its Future Next To Traditional Publishing December 20, viewed at <http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/12/20/usergenerated_media_and_its_future.htm>

Wikipedia.org, viewed at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog>