In the process of creating Techblog, I experienced the distinct differences between a serious weblog and a personal blog. While writing for serious weblog, there are several things that cannot be overlooked or to be missed. To gain readers’ trust, it is essential to make sure that all the information provided in the weblog is credible, reliable and rational. Besides, topics of the posts should not be mixed. The topic range that I have chosen for this weblog is mainly about the media and technology issues. Jakob Nielsen (2005) states that, ‘The more focused your content, the more focused your readers.’ Mixed topics will probably cause confusion to the readers and they might just leave the blog. Lastly, we need to make sure that information and sources within the weblog are organised and the links have to be useful so as to make the readers’ reading paths easier. These are also the skills that we need to apply while writing for the blog.
In this weblog, interplay of prose, graphics and hyperlinks are all well designed. Thus, theories of document designing are applied throughout the process of creating this weblog. The placement of the posts is slightly more centralised compare to the other elements that are being placed at the side. The central elements are referred as Centre while the flanked elements are Margins (Kress & Van Leeuwen, 1996). Besides, the application of framing as a purpose to connect and disconnect the elements is obvious within the weblog. Information that falls under different categories like posts, profile, and list of blog archive is clearly segmented. Multimodal texts like written language, moving or still images (Walsh, M 2006) are included and some are framed within the weblog too.
Although blog is a platform that advocates freedom of speech, but still, as a good quality blogger, we need to act ethical while blogging. Filter of contents and topics need to be done cautiously so as to avoid any unnecessary copyright or defamation infringements. Lastly, stealing people’s words is equally offensive as stealing people’s properties. This appears to be the one last thing that has to be engraved on every blogger’s mind. Be ethical, be quality.
References
Kress, G & van Leeuwen, T 1998, ‘Front pages: (the critical) analysis of newspaper layout’, in Bell, A & Garrett, P (eds) 1998, Approaches to media discourse, Blackwell, Oxford, chapter 7, pp. 186-219.
Nielsen, J 2005, Weblog Usability : The Top Ten Design Mistakes, viewed on 2 November 2007,
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Walsh, M 2006, ‘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.
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