Blog a space for self expression

Do you have anything to share with the world, your views, thoughts, experiences or creative items? Then, it is exclusively for you; start a blog today itself; begin
to express your words and chants to the world. Blogs help you communicate whatever you want on earth and sky, with no barriers and boundaries ahead of your way.
The world is not far-off from enjoying the full potentials of blogging through some recent undemocratic events in Myanmar and Pakistan. Two countries, which were held up by a rebellion and a national emergency respectively imposed a round the clock ban on traditional media. These were then, the young bloggers who brought the news and information into light from the scribes’ prohibited streets. Another famous blogger is from Iraq; Salam Pax, who is also known the Bagdad blogger lively reported real conditions from US invaded Iraq through his blog, named, ‘Where is Raed’ – http://www.dear_raed.blogspot.com/.
Blog is one of the latest vigorous communication tools came into reality on the Internet, the global network of computers. It is the personal space a person gets on the Web, where the blogger is free to post any kind of contents in form of not only the texts, but as images, audio and video clips as well. The concept of blogging has in time revolutionized the scenes of personal publications and information sharing on the Web.
The blogger can too customize the space with several decorative elements, thus making it an exclusive personal website. In blogs, the contents one posts will appear in a reverse chronological order i.e. the earlier posts at the bottom end of the page. However, the most recent entries will appear at the top of the page.
There are several blog publishing tools on the Web. What one needs to enter into blogging is just to register with any of these portals. The most popular blog publishing tools on the web are Google’s Blogger.com, WrodPress.com, Rediff blogs, Sulekha blogs etcetera.Blogging, soon after its emergence shortly a decade ago has now switched over to be a great source of knowledge on the Web. The contents recurrently uploaded by many experts from diverse walks of the life have, in fact enriched the blogging scene. Now, it will be easy for any web user to gather realistic pieces of information concerning any specialized areas of life, as every kind of people maintains blogs with their personal experiences.
Blog is also a good means to earn revenue. Via registering blogs with online advertising progammes like Google’s AdSense, a blogger can start earning money online. The advertising programmes work on the base of the impressions and clicks the particular blog gets on the Internet. When a visitor clicks on the advertisement links exhibited on the blog by the agencies, the blogger will be paid.

BLOGGING REVOLUTION

The computer revolution of 1980 in general and the Internet revolution of 1980 in particular have brought explosive changes in the communication scenario of the world. The Internet that offers several tools for communication is a network of computers across the world. On the Internet the communication is completely an interactive process and anyone with the network access from anywhere in the world can join the party. One need not own a printing press or a broadcasting station to reach large audiences anymore. The Internet offers numerous services that were earlier performed with great human risk. For instance, look at the widely acclaimed e-mail service and instant messaging that can send the messages world wide instantly.

Blog is one of other recently launched tools on the web in personal publication. Just as the printing press gave way to the mass production of pamphlets, newspapers and magazines, blogs too extend the ability to communicate on the Internet to a global audience.

“Let anyone distribute their ideas potentially to tens of millions of people. It’s totally reversed the whole history of mass communications” (opinion cited in Kornblum, 2006,n.p.)

Blogging

Blogging is a booming online platform for mass communication and it is getting huge popularity at the recent time. In technical terms, blogging is the space allotted -commonly free - on the web to a user, where she can publish whatever the contents she wants in form of texts, graphics, illustrations, images and video clips.

Blogs make having a simple website and much easier to even a beginner, the number of people who write for the Web has exploded. This is a striking confirmation of the importance of ease of use.

Web 2.00, the new EDITION of the Internet

Blog is considered to be one of the finest instances of the growing second edition of the World Wide Web, Web 2.00. Web 2.0 is a term which describes a new evolution in the use of Internet and web design that focuses on enhancing creativity, information sharing, and most significantly nourishing interaction among the Net users (Netizens). According to the Web 2.00 concepts, the web users are not passive consumers, but active participators of the global strings of information.

The emergence of several web-based communities and hosted services, such as blogging, social-networking, wikis denotes a change from the older edition to a new one. The term got public attention after the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference held in 2004. Although the term as mentioned above stands for a new edition of the Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users utilize the Web.

The characteristics of Web 2.0 web sites are: rich user experience, user participation, dynamic content, metadata, web standards and scalability. Moreover, features like openness, freedom and collective intelligence by way of user participation are some other essential attributes of Web 2.0.

NEW TRENDS IN BUSINESS JOURNALISM

Business journalism is a segment of journalism that is put to the coverage of business affairs. A business journal brings you news stories, features, articles, columns and photographs only from the fields of financial world. More over, there will be huge spaces allotted in every day’s business journal for showing the stock rates. Business journalism also covers news, features and articles about the people, places and companies related to the turf of business.

Generally, almost all newspapers and magazines, radio and television news channels carry a business segment. But detailed and in-depth business journalism can only be seen in the dedicated financial publications, radio and television channels.

If we look back to the history, we can see the roots of the business journalism far-off, though it has got wide prominence recently. In clear words, financial journalism gained the reputation in 1990s, with the sudden increase in the popularity of investing in the stock markets.

New trends in business journalism
As in the case of every particle of the media, the computer revolution of 1980 and the internet revolution of 1990 have made radical changes in business journalism also. Before starting counting the changes happened in the field, adding a good commentary from an experienced business journalist on these particular transformations is timely.

Stephen B. Shepard, editor of the world famous financial magazine, “Business Week” for more than twenty years makes his words on a question about the changes occurred in the field from his time.

“Complete revolution. First of all, it looks completely different. It was a black and white magazine with virtually no color photography. All of that has completely changed. You can do stories closely to the deadline because of the technological advances. You can do a cover story on Wednesday and have it done by the time it went to bed on Wednesday night. You couldn’t do that before, so the readers are better served. I think the core is the same in this sense. Business Week was then and is now a magazine of analysis and interpretation and commentary rather than what the news magazines were back then, which was a rehash of the week’s news. Business Week was never that. The core is the same, but it looks completely different, and it’s more lively and topical”

Business Journalism and Globalization
It is mentioned above that the increase in the investment in the stock markets has changed the face of business journalism. Of course, the globalization and the neo-liberal economic polices that opened the “free trade” doors all over the world in 1990s have a grand role in popularizing the business journals. People showed extreme interest in trying their luck investing in the stock markets. It brought a situation in which people wanted to know the updates from the stocks exchanges in particular and business sector in general.

Furthermore, the widespread growth of business sector mainly benefited by the globalization and liberalization necessitated the need for specialized journals and television channels to disseminate the information and updates, primarily among the share holders and beneficiaries of the companies and the common public. In other terms the greater the filed of business explored, the greater the need for business journalism increased.

Online Revolution
The emergence of the internet at the beginning the 1990s came to be a great blessing to the field of business journalism. In fact, online seems to be the proper channel for the dissemination of business information and updates majorly because of two reasons. One is the global access and the other is the instantaneity of the medium.

The former is very much important as the new trends and moods in the field of business are always to be determined in rally with the global movements. A business aspirant may have to be logged into the movements of the financial world all the times. Besides, the quick and instant medium helps him follow the real trends every time.

Energy Saving web search - Greens and Blacks of web searching -

Over and over again, toady we hear about global warming and green climate change. The high amounts of carbon dioxides emanating to the air by the increasing number of nuclear and industrial firms, primarily cause the climate change. Now, the fears of global warm keep the world sleepless and restless. Conferences and Summits are being organized one after one in order to discuss the upcoming threats. Several energy saving and carbon emission norms have been formed by these meets, to fight the global fears of climate change.

Simultaneously, there are similar efforts going on the WEB world also. You may be noticed or not. Most of the web giants in the world are vastly paying attention in framing energy saving techniques on their services. For instance, the web wizard Google, this year showcased its home page fully black on the Earth Day with a dazzling slogan “We‘ve turned the lights out, now it’s your turn”. It is revealed that a black screen consumes less electricity comparing to a predominantly white screen. In exact measures, while the former uses only 59 watts, the latter devours about 79 watts of energy.