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OhMyNews in Biz Problem

Moon Ih Lwan from BusinessWeek.com reports

that South Korea - based web site OhMyNews,

one of the earliest and most successful online citizen media ventures,

is struggling financially.

“this site continues to look for a profitable business model and, after several years of small profits, is expected to lose money in 2006”

Also the author wrote about OhMyNews

in separate paragraphs which are titled “Korea-specific,” “Fans abroad,”

and “Blogging rivals, connecting with the business problem”

The article says“For the moment, though, the company remains long on idealism but short on a workable business strategy”

What’s the Most Significant Change across the blogosphere?

In this Zahmoo weblog post writen by Andrew Rixon, he shared over at

"What’s the Most Significant Change Across the Blogosphere?"

Over there you can see how Andrew is requesting from other webloggers

some input to explore the Most Significant Change across the blogosphere.

He asked webloggers to answer the following two questions:
a. Describe a story that epitomises the most significant change that has resulted
from your blogging.
b. Why was this story significant for you?

And here you can see other 19 people's opinion.

Then, what’s the most significant change that has resulted from my blogging?

Well,,, I started blogging in September 2004 and for me, it has changed my daily practice. When I did not do blog, I even did not have interests in doing internet but after knowing about blog, it helped to communicate with others and how deal with them when I am in “cyberworld” I started to be interested in writing, sharing my opinions with others and posting photos. Also blog gave the chance to make friends, so I have made some friends and have been able to keep friendships through blogging.
Now I almost everyday check my blog before checking e-mails. And maybe blogging got a part of my life.

Now what’s your Most Significant Change from your own weblogging?

How to write for the Web

Do you have any difficulties in writingonline articles?

or

Do you want to write good online articles?

Of couse, you may feel difficulties in writing online articles
because it has a few differences between writing traditional
news articles and online articles. And as the online writers
communicate with readers through their articles, they have
to write clear and conversational articles so that they can
communicate with readers more realitic.

In the website "Online Journalism Review", Heera Hasan
introduces a few basic tips that can help us to wiriting blog,
wiki, discussion boards articles

Blogging
The capable blogger easily engage many reders and makes

a productive conversation throgh comments posted to the blog.

"To write a great blog, write about what you know – your
passion, well researched and reported"

Apply some skills of a news columnist, crafting a personal, first-person voice

that readers can find not only useful information,

but also comfortable and honest in your posts.

And naver be afraid when you do not know something.
"Great bloggers see their posts as the first comment in a conversation,

rather than the final word on that particular topic"

Wikis

"Wikis are the ultimate exercise in "writing by committee."
Avoid blogging's first person and blend your edits into the tone

and flow of the existing article.

Wikis, typically, are not the place for personal opinion and analysis.

Present the facts and acknowledge controversies in clear,

clean and neutral language"

Discussion boards

"Running a good discussion board is like hosting a radio talk show"

You should not ask "yes" or "no" questions.

Accept and understand peple's jokes or anecdotes, but bring the
conversation back on topic and do not let flame wars
erupt, that will make readers go away!

General Tips

*The shorter, the better

*Active voice

*Strong verbs

*Attribute sources

*Contextual hyperlinking

*Use formatting

-lists

-bold headers

-blockquotes

-other handy HTML formatting tricks

*One topic per URL

*Easy to read

*Spell check

I hope these tips will help you to write "good articles that
will make your readers feel as comfortable reading as they
feel when talking with a close friend".

Famous and Inspirational Quotes on Success

Sometimes a few words, only one sentence

can encourage you in doing you best,

so I found some famous and inspirational quotes on success for you.

Here are several of them

Colin Powell: There are no secrets to success.

Indira Gandhi: There are two kinds of people, those who do the work
and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less
competition there.

Basil King: Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing
ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess
us, we are superior to them.

James E. Burke: We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful
company is riddled with failures.

Ralph Half: When ability exceeds ambition, or ambition exceeds ability,
the likelihood of success is limited.

These are not all !
In here you can find more famous and inspirational Quotes on Success
or on other words.

Different Types of blogs

How many types do blogs have?
I thought that I should know about how many different types of blog
as user of blog, so I searched and found about that.
And there are so many different types of blogs even I did not know before,
they seem similar to each other, but they are different!

Personal- The word blog is used to describe an online diary or journal, so in personal blogs people write their day-to-day experiences, complaints, poems, prose, illicit thoughts and more, often allowing others to contribute, fulfilling to a certain extent.

Thoughtful-Weblogs in the "thoughtful" category present an individual's (or a small group's) thoughts on whatever subject comes to hand.

FriendBlog-A FriendBlog is a distributed networked journal on the web, composed of short, frequently updated posts written by friends connected through their similar interests.

Topical-Topical blogs focus on a specific niche, often a technical one.

News-Many weblogs provide a news digest on a certain topic.

Collaborative (also collective or group)-Collaborative weblogs can be open to everyone or limited to a group of people. MetaFilter is an example of this type of weblog.

Political-Often an individual will link to articles from news web sites and post their own comments as well.

Legal-Blogs that discuss law and legal affairs are often referred to as blawgs.

Directory -Directory weblogs are useful for web-surfers because they often collect numerous web sites with interesting content in an easy to use and constantly updated format.

Media-Some blogs serve as media watchdogs, reporting on falsehoods or inconsistencies that are presented as facts in the mass media.

Corporate -Increasingly, employees of corporations are posting official or semi-official blogs about their work.

Advice-Many weblogs provide expert advice, such as Microsoft technical knowledge

Religious-some religious blogs show the public's points of view on various controversies both in religion and in politics, economics, and life in general.

Formats-Some weblogs specialise in particular forms of presentation, such as images, or videos, or on a particular theme, and acronyms have been developed for some of these, such as moblogs (for "mobile" blog).

Audio-One of the types of blog that has undergone rapid expansion since the year 2000 is the MP3 blog, which make audio files available to the user.

Photography-or a photoblog. The increasing ubiquity of digital cameras and broadband connections has made it ever easier to post and share photos on the web.

Video- A vlog, or videoblog, is a blog where video is included in blog posts.

See the original article

South Korean Presidential office's weblog

Chong Wa Dae (known as The Blue House,

the South Korean equivalent of The White House) has opened its own blog

as part of efforts to “facilitate communication with the people”

The Korea Times reports that the blog, named

“President’s Thoughts These Days,’’ was opened across three main blog providers,

on Naver, Daum and Paran on Jan, 2006 .

“We will try to get various information and news of the presidential office out to the Internet users through this Chong Wa Dae Blog, along with the official homepage of Chong Wa Dae,’’

These Weblogs have various bulletin boards: “president’s memo”, “photos on current affairs”, “netizen’s colum ” and etc.

President should know and pay attention about citizen’s opinion on his affairs, so I think it is one of good ways to know people’s opinion and suggestions.

And It will be very useful if they create weblog in English version for foreigners, to share people’s opinions from other countries.

The Future of Weblogs

There are some interesting articles about future of weblogs,

althought they are not latest:

Nico Macdonald reports, about the future of Weblogging,

and about her prediction.

Here is Glenn Harlan Reynold's analysis of blogs and blogosphere.
“…Over the next few years, blogs will grow both more and less significant. They'll grow more significant because more people will be reading them, and -- at least as important -- more people will be writing …”

Dave Pollard provides an thought on the future of blogging to 2010. It is interesting to consider the path of blogging in the future.

Read them and also think about the future of weblogs by yourself!

New Online Technologies are changing Journalism

-Blog, Blogging and bloggers-

It is a common that our lives have been hugely improved with the development into internet technology.

In the present, all people need only one finger to get information that they could have imagined in the past.

In addition, internet has created online-journalism and later, as online-journalism changed one-direction process, that only reports information, into reciprocal process, which allows every writer to be a reader and every reader to be writer, so they can share some information and opinions, has brought a new form, a new system of online-journalism - weblog or blog

And new word "blogshere" came to us.

Nowadays, as the birth of blog has changed people's life styles and taken an important part in our lives, the people who are doing it and its numbers keep growing more and more.

So, Steve Johnson calls that blog as "a mainstream" , and titled his article as “I blog, therefore I am”

However, the conflicts of opinions between people who think that blogging is one of journalism system and people who do not, is occurring more as the number of using blogs is growing and it has taken more places and interests that another online mass media had before.

According to Nick Madigan, she insists that bloggers are not journalist and wrote article based on report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which found this past summer that only 5 percent of bloggers use news as their primary topic, and 37 percent of those surveyed cited their own life and experiences as primary fodder for their blogs, 11 percent said they blog regularly about politics and governments, 7 percent about entertainment, 6 percent about sports, and lesser fractions on business, technology and fait. So she argues that bloggers do not journalism, but they do blog just as a hobby and for their interests.

On the other hand, there are people, who think that blogging is one of journalism system, so they recommend useful information and tips, trying to keep blogs as a form of journalism.

Dan Gillmor and Syberjournalist.net do not suggest that bloggers must follow same ethics codes journalists do, but recommends to have bloggers' code of ethics-"be honest and fair, minimize harm, be accountable" to achieve readers’ truth, and Dan Gillmor introduces 5 pillars of good journalism, which are useful way to approach ethical journalism : thoroughness, accuracy, fairness, transparency and independence.
Also, Vincent Maher gives 11 Tips for managing a Good Blog Entry. He considers blogergs as a community manager than a writer, and wants bloggers to follow them.


In conclusion, blogs have greatly developed worldwide human relationships and it provides abundant and valuable information in which people can easily and quick access.

As the central point in blogging is “conversation”, blogs have a lot of different voices, and that’s why most people like them.

Blogs are a technology, and journalism is a process. The process of journalism can use the technology of blogs to good effect, so we should not criticize them, and bloggers also should follow some ethical rights, in order to blogs be recognized as a form of online-journalism, so that we can make the batter online journalism culture.

Blogs have the power to bridge distance, politics, religion, and cultural differences, bringing people together from all walks of life all around the world.

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References

Nick Madigan.(2006, July 23).Blogger ain’t journalistsivings. Retrieved from

http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/9074.html

Dan Gillmor.What ethics should bloggers have?Retrieved from

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15003

CyberJournalist.net.A Bloggers' Code of Ethics.Retrieved from

http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php

Vincent Maher. 11 Tips for managing a Good Blog Entry.Retrieved from

http://vincentmaher.com/mit/?p=174

2006 Online Journalism Awards winners

The Online Journalism Awards-

"emblematic of the best in online journalism – are administered by the Online News Association and the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communications"

Looking for some resouces that relevant to online-journalism,

I knew that there was "The Online Journalism Awards"

on saturday, Oct. 7. at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C.,

Here are the winners of the 2006 Online Journalism Awards:

General Excellence in Online Journalism (Large)

MSNBC

General Excellence in Online Journalism (Medium)

Roanoke.com

General Excellence in Online Journalism (Small)

The Center for Public Integrity

Breaking News (Large)

“Hurricane Katrina,” NOLA.com

Breaking News (Small)

“Hurricane Katrina,” Sun Herald

Online Commentary (Large)

“David Pogue on NYTimes.com,” New York Times

Online Commentary (Medium)

“Stuck in the 80s,” TampaBay.com

Online Commentary (Small)

“Good Morning Silicon Valley,” John Paczkowski

Outstanding Use of Multiple Media (Large)

“Hurricane Katrina,” MSNBC.com

Outstanding Use of Multiple Media (Small)

“Montgomery Boycott,” Montgomery Advertiser

Specialty Journalism (Large)

“ESPN Insider,” ESPN

Specialty (Small)

Fine Woodworking

Service Journalism (Large)

“The Mercury Menace,” Chicago Tribune

Service Journalism (Small)

“Gulf Coast News

Investigative Journalism (Large)

“A Million Little Lies,” The Smoking Gun

Investigative Journalism (Small)

“Cause for Alarm,” WTHR 13 Eyewitness News

Student Journalism

“Rezoned,” Jeff DelViscio and Khody Akhavi, Columbia School of Journalism

Knight Foundation Award for Public Service

“Hurricane Katrina: The Storm We Always Feared,” NOLA.com

If you want, please take a look some of them & get information

For more detail information - click!!

Credibility and,,, Money

In citizen journalism site"OhMyNews " I found a news article titled"Is Getting Paid to blog Etical? "

In this news article the writer wrote his opinion about posting paid advertisment in blogs without saying that is an ad.
He put emphasize on credibility of blogs, and he described this issue as a "growing pain"

I think this issue is important for the future of blogs in citizen jounalism.

Also have a look "Polluting The Blogoshere",too

The Future Book

In Danna's blog,

she posted her opinion about future book - "Future of the Books".

It was very interesting to me,

and here is my opinion about the Future Book:

Books, as the transmitters of happiness, sorrow,

emotion and knowledge,take an important part in our society.

Nowadays, even without books, it is difficult to develop the world,

so we must go on preserving and protectingthem permanently.

For that reason, I think various technological books will appear

in the future.

In comparison with past books,

present books are developed a lot from every aspect

- diversity of kinds, qualities and etc.

However, the problem is that all books are made of papers.

Usually, papers can easily get torn,

burnt and the amount of paper is limited,

so it is difficult to preserve and make more papered books.

Also books with great amount contents

and imformation are uncomfortable to carry.

Therefore, as our society is becoming more technological and digital,

books will be made of something different from paper,

that we can preserve books eternally,

save the trees from being disappeared,

and as society is becoming more ubiquitous,

books will be smaller and lighter that we can carry

and read easily wherever and anytime.
For example, there will be such as microchip-books,

which we can insert into special glasses

or really thin and flexible monitor,

and then the three-dimensonal reflection appears on the air

from glasses or monitor.

So we can read texts, see pictures, some movements

in the air and hear their sounds, too.

It means that the microchip-books let us not only to read,

see and hear, but also feel them and give more realistic emotions.

Moreover, the books can leave the pages - the flat ground and can fly,

and live in microchip-books.

In conclusion, as I mentioned above,

maybe books in the future will become more isualizational.

Since the purposes of books are to let readers know or learn

and understand about something new through reading books,
the visual elements will help them to learn and

to understand more easily and quickly.

The world is changing day by day,

and many unique ideas are coming out more and more,

accordingly, in the very future, there could be another various books

even we could not predict, and I am really expecting of them!!!

On-lines in Kazakhstan

As we live in the highly developed technological civilization, in recent years the internet technology in Kazakhstan has developed a lot, and I think it is developing now, too.

And here are students' opinions about Onlines in Kazakhstan:

In Aliya's blog,she posted about titled “Kazakhstan Online”
In this post, she was unwilling that in spite of Kazakhstan is developing and trying to make best web-sites, there are few sites that made by Kazakhstan. So she hopes that having more Kazahstany own web-sites.

Anvar also mentioned about “Blogging in Kazakhstan”
He says that blogs are helpful to share opinions with other people safely:

"In Kazakhstan there is not much of freedom of the press or opinion, so the only way to share your ideas with other people is to run a weblog, because, government can’t close your weblog or find you. And for us, for young generation, for the future of Kazakhstan it is very important to communicate, even through Internet"

And added that "blogging is only one of great opportunities that Internet offers us"

Diana posted "Online Journalism in Kazakhstan", too.
She said that Although the Online Journalism in Kazakhstan is growing and Kazakhstani blogging is developing very actively, there is a small number of sites made by Kazakhstan.

"Mostly Astana, Almaty and Karaganda can really be called “all over internet using.” However
we rarely can see any publication in Kazakhstan that hasn’t its online version. For example, Panorama, Khabar, Liter and so on. As a rule the Kazakhstan newspapers and magazines simply put on their sites online versions of printed materials, and for more interactions add forums"

and she introduce two web-sites: first one is blog.kz which is the first blogging site in Kazakhstan & second one is CT- here, news are posted quicker than other media in Kazakhsatn, so many Kazahstany journalists are active in this site.

Finally, I think web-sites and blogs which were made through internet are really changed our society and it help us a lot in all aspects. They give everyone opportunity to do jounalism (like report some useful information) and to do reciprocal process. Kazakhstan, one of developing country, is not yet skillful in IT technology. But I hope the Kazakhstan online system will continue developing more & more!

Thanks for good information to Aliya, Anvar and Diana ;)

Mindy McAdams, who teaches university courses about online journalism in Florida, United States, wrote about our course blog"BAIJ1605 New Information Technologies", and also about our students' blogs in her blog "Teaching online journalism"
(click here to read her post about our course blog
"Journalism students blogging in Kazakhstan")

I think it is very interesting that we can know, give and receive information through blogs

and I realized that blogs are really helpful to communicate with each other globaly, too.

Also, there are a lot of jolly and useful information in Mindy McAdams's blog.

Top 10 reasons why nobody reads your blog

(this is a bonnus post for interest!!)

1. You're not a good-looking female who likes posting naked pictures of herself.

2. There's nothing in it for them.

3. "Passion & Authority" are just buzzwords to you.

4. A secret cabal of A-Listers got together and decided that you should be excluded from the conversation.

5. You have nothing to say.

6. You're not The Assimilated Negro.

7. You didn't recently sell your company to AOL(America online) for $25 million.

8. The very fact that you're whining about traffic makes people not want to read your blog.

9. You've only been writing the damn thing for a week.

10. The Long Tail is very, very long.

Blogs are more than journalism

In some webpages there are several articles and blogs which handled

the relationship between Weblogs and Journalism.

Here is one of them:

"Blogs are more than journalism"

Blogs are written largely as a hobby, according to a new study, not for the sake of journalism. There are two opinions on this research by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

First, the perception that blogs are used mainly for "journalism"- as defined by mainstream media- has been created by the mainstream media. Blogs are simply a newer form of online communication that began with newsgroups, bulletin boards and Web sites in earlier stages of the Internet's evolution. Old media organizations have described blogs as journalistic outlets after getting scooped badly by them in some high-profile stories, a myopic definition that excludes the full spectrum of the blogosphere.

Second, and more important, who cares about the definition of "journalism" anyway? News organizations are the ones hung up on this label, not bloggers. It's all about information, not some editor's definition of "news," and that means just about anything to anybody.

wirtten by Mike Yamamoto CNET news.com

What is Blog?

Nowadays, as the internet became popular,

many people use the internet and also they have their own weblogs.

Also, blogging is becoming one of the forms of online journalism.

Here is some basic information about weblogs:

Blog is the contraction universally used for weblog,

a type of website where we can easily record journal or diary.

Weblogs often provide commentary or news and information

on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal onlne diaries.

A typical weblog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Most weblogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog),videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.

The word blog can also be used as a verb,

meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

The difference between other homepages and blogs is that,

in weblogs we can leave a comment on a post:
Comments are a way to provide discussion on weblog entries.

Readers can leave a comment on a post, which can correct errors or contain their opinion on the post or the post's subject. Services like coComment aim to ease discussion through comments, by allowing tracking of them.

If you want youe own weblog, You can create using Blogger, Livejournal