Reflection

At the end of all the postings, blogging is not just as simple as it looks. One has to be ethical, tactful and careful before splilling out those controversial messages, or any form of racism targeted towards a particular group. Besides being informative in writing a blog, the designing of the layout of the blog is quintessential as Walsh (2006) stated that documents these days work in multimodal form and no longer just based on texts. Reep (2006) also noted that there are many factors to be considered while designing a document, in this case a blog.

After completing this weblog, there is no denial that the introduction of blogs has transform the way of journalism, as it has been used widely as an alternative source to the mainstream media. However, as Zahiid (2010) stated that the rise of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook has declined the usage of blogs. Anyway, blogs is the solution for alternative information and one’s point of view on that issue.

Much thanks to Miss Jenny and her guidance, teachings and advises.

Reference

Reep, D 2006, ‘Chapter 6: document design’ in Technical Writing, 6th edn, Pearson/Longman, New York, pp. 133-172.

Walsh, M 2006, ‘The ‘textual shift’: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts’, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 24-37.

Zahiid, SJ 2010, Blogging is so yesterday, politicians turn to Twitter, The Malaysian Insider, viewed 10 November 2010, <http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/Blogging-is-so-yesterday-politicians-turn-to-Twitter/>.

Blogging Community

The word ‘community’ is defined as a group of people in where the people share a common interest and would often share a common cultural heritage (Dictionary.com, 2010). In the ‘blogging community’, the community consist of bloggers which share a common interest which is to write blogs to speak out or share their interest with others.

Create a Blogging Community

In order to build a solid and strong blogging community, there are various methods and approaches to build a blogging community. As suggested by Acollins (2010), it is necessary for the blogger to insert the “share” option, in order for the audience to be able to “like” a certain post or comment. Besides, Acollins (2010) suggested that the blogger should spent some time reading other followers’ blog in order to increase audiences

Types of Blogging Communities

According to White (2006), the blogging community consists of three categories - single centric blogging community, boundaried blogging community and topic centric blogging community. The single centric blog is normally managed by a single blogger and the community centralised around that particular blogger (White, 2006) whereas the topic centric blog is linked by a common interest or topic among the bloggers such as movie blogs and food blogs (White, 2006). Boundaried communities blog as noted by White (2006) is a collection of blogs and readers based on a single platform, such as MySpace.com.

Reference

Acollins 2010, Build a stronger blog community by sharing and collaborating, Astonish Result News, viewed 19 September 2010, <http://www.astonishresultsnews.com/2010/07/30/astonish-bloggers-uniting/>.

Dictionary.com 2010, Community, viewed 16 September 2010, <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/community>.

White, N 2006, Blogs and community – launching a new paradigm for online community?, Australian Flexible Learning Framework, viewed 19 September 2010, <http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>.