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/>.
