The Blogging Phenomenon (IV)

New forms of media publishing

The closing end of the last century have seen the introduction of the internet and the dawn of the 21^st century have further propelled that medium to the forefront of media publishing; so much so that the popularity of conventional methods of print and broadcast media are slowly being overtaken by this rising phenomenon of digital media.

This is where new terms like mobile blogging (or moblog); vlogs and photoblogs come into the picture. For the uninitiated, moblog is another form of blogging which utilizes mobile phones (hence the ‘mobile’ term) to post materials to their webpages. Vlogs, or video blogs, meanwhile, is blogging but through video entries posted on video sharing websites such as YouTube and Qik, where users could also post spontaneously on the go, again through their mobile phones. Photoblogs, on the other hand, are different from regular blogs as they focus more on photographs instead of text which only serves as caption to the displayed pictures.

Besides blog hosting websites and YouTube, electronic newspapers that have different opinions from the mainstream print newspaper also play an important role in determining and altering the new flow of thinking that is the foundation of new ideologies.

Reference

(2008). Mobile Blogging. Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblog. Last accessed 01 November 2008.

(2008). Video Blogging. Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_blogging. Last accessed 10 November 2008.