Online Stories and Journals
To start the lecture we looked at an online news article on the BBC webpage. Online news is a new version of news which includes; reports, main story, links to other articles, comments, pictures, videos, background information, hyperlinks (related internet links to other pages on the internet) also the ability to share the news story (email, Facebook etc) or to print the story.
Online news brought a change in reading habits and also brought up the question of breadth over depth. It also allowed for advertising and for people to leave comments. Could people's comments have an effect on the story? (especially negative comments).
Brought a demand for 24 hour news.
'Gatekeeper' - controls what we read (to an extent - comments)
Also looked at the website 'Archipelago' which is a journal of poetry, creative writing etc. an outlet for people to get their work out on the internet, also in a format that readers can also download.
C - CLIENTS
A - ACTORS
T - TRANSFORMATION
W - WORLD VIEW
O - OWNER
E - ENVIRONMENT
WRITERS + EDITORS + REVIEWERS
POEMS/STORIES -------->
QUALITY CHECK --------> BLACK BOX ----------------------> JOURNAL
GRAPHIC DESIGN ------->
WEB ---------------------->
POEMS/STORIES --------> JOURNAL --------> WEB LITERATE LITERARY INTEREST
ILLUSTRATOR + PRODUCER + WRITERS + EDITOR
PAPER/INK ------------------------->
CONTENT --------------------------->
DESIGN -----------------------------> BOOK -------------------> READERS/INTEREST
TECHNOLOGY ---------------------->
QUALITY CHECKS ------------------>
- What does it enhance? (lulu)
- Does it improve anything? (availability of christmas presents etc)
- Sharing information in communities
- Enhance value of the book
- Increase volume of things being published
- Extend life of out-of-print books
- Design options
- Quality
- Encourage people to write
- Enhances postal service?
-What does it replace? (no longer needed/sustainable?)
- Publishing agencies
- Big corporations
- Printers
- Removing choice of company
- Replaces a book store
- Replaces warehouses
- Replaces trucks
- Reduces carbon emmissions
- More postmen delivering individual copies
- What would it revive?
- Bring back postal service
- Creative writing courses
- Out of print texts
- Specialist books
- Publishing for the love of books
- Small publishing houses
-What would be the long term effects?
- One big company
- libraries disappear/change
- Sales go down
- Channels change
Monday, 26 October 2009
Monday, 19 October 2009
E-Publishing - Week Four
Blogging and Blog Fiction
Lecture Four - we looked at blogs and blog fiction.
Blogs
We looked at tips for writing a blog, and why people write blogs. How to make blogs stand out and how to make them original.
"Technically a blog is a series of posts arranged in chronological order. Most agree, however, that they are an important form of expression. Though many modern blogs are personal observancies updated on a regular basis, the earliest blogs weren't rants or observancies. They were lists of links maintained by a handful of tech savvy individuals. It wasn't until the late 1990s that blogging evolved into what we see today." (Moodle)
Blogging is an easy way of publishing your thoughts to the web so that other people can view them and also make comments on them.
Blog Fiction
We also looked at blog fiction. Blog fiction is a form of fiction writing that uses blogs to reach its readership. It is a small-scale fringe activity in the world of blogging and although it has generated some literary critical interes, it remains isolated. It is presented in many forms, from a pretend diary or posted novel or a serial blog.
We looked at some examples of blog fictions including 'the professional pet' and 'wilf's world'.
Blogs of course mean different things to different people. Blogs allow people to write whatever they want to write for other people to read. Of course the blog could be extremely accurate or full of lies and is generally from the opinion of the author so in most cases can be incredibily biased. Blogs are a useful way of expressing your thoughts and feelings and getting your views out on the web, anyone can read them, follow them and comment on them unlike the olde version of a diary when is generally meant to be kept private. Blogs have undergone a lot of criticism recently due to less than factual content and the usual anonimity of their authors. Countries such as China, Iran and Italy are starting to clamp down on blogging and also websites such as Twitter to try and curb the population's freedom of speech. Recently, however, blogging has experienced a win against the super injuction when bloggers exposed information the media was trying to keep quiet from us over a super injuction on the dumping of toxic waste by oil company Trafigura. It does make you wonder what else has been hidden from us in the past!!
Keep blogging and tweeting everyone!!!
Lecture Four - we looked at blogs and blog fiction.
Blogs
We looked at tips for writing a blog, and why people write blogs. How to make blogs stand out and how to make them original.
"Technically a blog is a series of posts arranged in chronological order. Most agree, however, that they are an important form of expression. Though many modern blogs are personal observancies updated on a regular basis, the earliest blogs weren't rants or observancies. They were lists of links maintained by a handful of tech savvy individuals. It wasn't until the late 1990s that blogging evolved into what we see today." (Moodle)
Blogging is an easy way of publishing your thoughts to the web so that other people can view them and also make comments on them.
Blog Fiction
We also looked at blog fiction. Blog fiction is a form of fiction writing that uses blogs to reach its readership. It is a small-scale fringe activity in the world of blogging and although it has generated some literary critical interes, it remains isolated. It is presented in many forms, from a pretend diary or posted novel or a serial blog.
We looked at some examples of blog fictions including 'the professional pet' and 'wilf's world'.
Blogs of course mean different things to different people. Blogs allow people to write whatever they want to write for other people to read. Of course the blog could be extremely accurate or full of lies and is generally from the opinion of the author so in most cases can be incredibily biased. Blogs are a useful way of expressing your thoughts and feelings and getting your views out on the web, anyone can read them, follow them and comment on them unlike the olde version of a diary when is generally meant to be kept private. Blogs have undergone a lot of criticism recently due to less than factual content and the usual anonimity of their authors. Countries such as China, Iran and Italy are starting to clamp down on blogging and also websites such as Twitter to try and curb the population's freedom of speech. Recently, however, blogging has experienced a win against the super injuction when bloggers exposed information the media was trying to keep quiet from us over a super injuction on the dumping of toxic waste by oil company Trafigura. It does make you wonder what else has been hidden from us in the past!!
Keep blogging and tweeting everyone!!!
Monday, 12 October 2009
E-Publishing - Week Three
The Book vs The E-Book
"e-publishing requires us to rethink what we mean by 'the book', that standard of complex communication for over 5 centuries which was pretty much unknown for the millenium before Gutenberg" (quote from Moodle)
Focusing on the 'Gutenberg Project' or 'Project Gutenberg' collects texts that are out of copyright (author died, copyright not been renewed etc) allows more people to have access to knowledge.
Orality and Literacy
- printing had a profound effect (these days e-publishing is probably going through the same thing)
- greater accessibility
- quite expensive technology (not everyone could afford a printing press)
- reformation (religion) could now read the Bible
- messenger (things could change) could not trust the written word, spoken word trusted much more - eyes could be easily deceived
-*lists*
Technology in the Hidden Revolution
- workflow
- typesetting - getting the type set out properly
- standardisation system
- postscript - translates what is going on, how things should look
- pdf - portable document format
- sgml - simplified general mark-up language
- html - hyper text mark-up language
In the second half of the lecture we looked at lulu.com which is an online publisher. Using Project Gutenberg we chose a novel and imported it into lulu.com and practiced putting together our own book. The website was surprisingly simple to use and talked the user through step by step how to put the book together.
For the final project, there is the possibility to publish a book using lulu.com. I think that if I was to do this for my assignment then I would have to learn how to use the website to its full advantage and conduct various research into online publishing, Project Gutenberg and into lulu.com.
"e-publishing requires us to rethink what we mean by 'the book', that standard of complex communication for over 5 centuries which was pretty much unknown for the millenium before Gutenberg" (quote from Moodle)
Focusing on the 'Gutenberg Project' or 'Project Gutenberg' collects texts that are out of copyright (author died, copyright not been renewed etc) allows more people to have access to knowledge.
Orality and Literacy
- printing had a profound effect (these days e-publishing is probably going through the same thing)
- greater accessibility
- quite expensive technology (not everyone could afford a printing press)
- reformation (religion) could now read the Bible
- messenger (things could change) could not trust the written word, spoken word trusted much more - eyes could be easily deceived
-*lists*
Technology in the Hidden Revolution
- workflow
- typesetting - getting the type set out properly
- standardisation system
- postscript - translates what is going on, how things should look
- pdf - portable document format
- sgml - simplified general mark-up language
- html - hyper text mark-up language
In the second half of the lecture we looked at lulu.com which is an online publisher. Using Project Gutenberg we chose a novel and imported it into lulu.com and practiced putting together our own book. The website was surprisingly simple to use and talked the user through step by step how to put the book together.
For the final project, there is the possibility to publish a book using lulu.com. I think that if I was to do this for my assignment then I would have to learn how to use the website to its full advantage and conduct various research into online publishing, Project Gutenberg and into lulu.com.
Monday, 5 October 2009
E-Publishing - Week Two
The Publishing Industry and Disruptive Technology
In the lecture we recapped what we went over in the first lecture, which included looking at the 'publishing value chain' which is the process that happens between from the author creating the work and to the actual consumers reading the work.
http://tlrg.bangor.ac.uk/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=1392
We also had a discussion over our own views on what e-publishing is and our views on the differences between the printed word and words on a screen including the advantages and the disadvantages and the fact that some people dislike reading on a screen and prefer the printed word.
Got shown some software called 'XMind' which is obtainable as a free download. The software is useful as a mind-mapping device for taking notes. Using the software we created a spider diagram for what we as a group wanted to go over in the lecture, including;
e-publishing
the blogs
how technology will change things
author/reader relationship
how to keep it running
how much has happened
disruptive technology? - changes things for the better?
different experiences
Blogs
With the blogs, we are to write down what we learn in the lectures and also our own thoughts and opinions.
Where possible if we could also make references and links.
Thompson reading
Publishing Industry - acquiring symbolic content (ideas expressed in words and pictures), acquiring rights to the content, processing this content, locating financial capital to convert content, convert content into books, distribute and sell converted content (backlist)
Copyright - protects publishers investment
Publisher - made of editorial (desk editing, production, marketing departments, content acquisition, list building, financial investment, content development, quality control, management and co-ordination, sales and marketing)
Publishing Capital - economic capital, human capital, intellectual capital, symbolic capital (backlist)
Publishing Field - type of content, type of market, linguistic field, territorial field, technological field
How to keep it running:
backlist
long-tail model
freemium model
other models
- no longer aware of what we own (rights)
Rattle of Pebbles
- cottage industry
- corporate changed the atmosphere (multimedia industry)
- relationship has changed
In the lecture we recapped what we went over in the first lecture, which included looking at the 'publishing value chain' which is the process that happens between from the author creating the work and to the actual consumers reading the work.
http://tlrg.bangor.ac.uk/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=1392
We also had a discussion over our own views on what e-publishing is and our views on the differences between the printed word and words on a screen including the advantages and the disadvantages and the fact that some people dislike reading on a screen and prefer the printed word.
Got shown some software called 'XMind' which is obtainable as a free download. The software is useful as a mind-mapping device for taking notes. Using the software we created a spider diagram for what we as a group wanted to go over in the lecture, including;
e-publishing
the blogs
how technology will change things
author/reader relationship
how to keep it running
how much has happened
disruptive technology? - changes things for the better?
different experiences
Blogs
With the blogs, we are to write down what we learn in the lectures and also our own thoughts and opinions.
Where possible if we could also make references and links.
Thompson reading
Publishing Industry - acquiring symbolic content (ideas expressed in words and pictures), acquiring rights to the content, processing this content, locating financial capital to convert content, convert content into books, distribute and sell converted content (backlist)
Copyright - protects publishers investment
Publisher - made of editorial (desk editing, production, marketing departments, content acquisition, list building, financial investment, content development, quality control, management and co-ordination, sales and marketing)
Publishing Capital - economic capital, human capital, intellectual capital, symbolic capital (backlist)
Publishing Field - type of content, type of market, linguistic field, territorial field, technological field
How to keep it running:
backlist
long-tail model
freemium model
other models
- no longer aware of what we own (rights)
Rattle of Pebbles
- cottage industry
- corporate changed the atmosphere (multimedia industry)
- relationship has changed
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