Lecture 11, Blog 12

15/12/2009
Danielle Boden
elu6d2

E-Publishing
Lecture 11
Blog 12

Security on the internet.

What is an IP address? It consists of four sets of three digits and it enables you to find exactly which computer has been used for something. If you want to find out your own IP address it is easy to do so, What is my IP address?

Just because your voice can be heard it doesn’t mean anyone is listening. However, there is an argument with the Internet it is different from the real world because if you think about it life has always been like that.





Flashmob. An attack by several people at a specific time where it reverses the idea of pathetic fallacy instead of the audience knowing what is going on it is the actors/entertainers/people who know but not the audience. T-Mobile did a fantastic Flashmob to promote their network on 15th January 2009 which was then broadcasted onto television. It is really amazing I thought it was great and made me smile a lot!

Live Journal. This is a publishing platform where you can create your own journal or articles like blogger.com but for journals.

The Internet is a lot more interconnected than the old publishing industry. However, the downside to flash mobs is that it arranges their meetings and protests on the Internet is that everything is traceable.

INTERDEPENDANT AND COMPLEXED, more so than ever before.

Slackervism, how active are you really when it comes to fighting physically in what you believe in? People believe that by watching something, reading something or joining a group is politically active. E publishing is one of the most influential and important to Governments moving ideas through the world at incredible rates and make people feel they have done something.

You can’t stop people using the Internet. Governments will but they do not succeed.

Thinking that the Internet is solely for good but people know how to use it in bad ways.

Usernames
Passwords = who has access to all of this? Someone will we just don’t know who.
Emails
The Internet is inherently safe and insecure.

Podcasting.

Arguably BBC iPlayer is a pod cast.



Click here to go to You Tube and watch how to create a pod cast on Blogger.

Podcast, from iPod. Not an audio cast because the audio cast can only be streamed on an MP3 created by Apple, which is the iPod. A pod cast is basically as RSS but it contains added features.

Clickcaster. This is essentially a blog but the difference is that you can upload and audio or visual which can be streamed onto an iPod.



Thank you for taking the time to read my blog this week.
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Lecture 10, Blog 11

08/12/2009
Danielle Boden
elu6d2

E-Publishing
Lecture 10
Blog 11

What is technology?

What components does the following technologies need to make them possible?

Technology is created when something is applied to a digital media this results in the creation of a technology.

Finance; this is so deeply embedded that we don’t see it as a technology anymore like books.

PDF; this is a fundamental technology that affects its distribution, it ensures that everything is embedded and that it doesn’t change so that you can open files in the format it was created.

Lulu, web publishing technology; word processing, printers, graphic design software/ image editing software, PDF files, internet (IPTCP, HTML), website (active server pages), forum tools, xml, post script, CC e-commerce, encryption/security/verification = secure servers, rss.

Blogging; html, host website, embedding, rss, hyperlinks, Internet, www, database,

Interactive Fiction; platform, programming language, distribution and content (technology is used to create and achieve this), xml, algorithms, internet, inform, software.

Visual novels; audio, graphic design to create animation, audio, development platforms, content, distribution, internet, flash, programming, graphic editing software, digital interactive formats.

Publishing on demand; PDF, databases, printers, networks, mobile phones (distribution), photocopiers, internet, websites, books (printing press, product of technology, gives an easy way of accessing data), post script.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog this week.
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Lecture 9, Blog 10

01/12/2009
Danielle Boden
elu6d2

E-Publishing
Lecture 9
Blog 10


This weeks topic is alternate interactive fiction.



This week we looked at Renpy, which is a software that enables you to create graphical interactive fiction resulting in the creation of a visual novel. However there are limitations to this. Problems encountered when creating and using visual novels are that they are not very interactive.

Visual book versus the audio book, which is better?

Value added chain with Renpy.

To produce a visual novel you need the following components, a story, images, sources, content and providers. This adds value to projects with a chain going through it.

Disruptive technologies
Algorithms – Software.

Programming is what sets it apart.

The Internet is a network of networks = IPTCP;
www = an interconnection of files through hyperlinks making it easy to navigate around the Internet, however, what is the difference between these two?

It was Tim Burness Lee who came up with the concept of HTML and the idea of a browser.

E-Commerce

It is XML that makes Lulu (postscript) and e publishing possible.

What is XML? Extensible Mark-up Language



Technology disrupts your skill base but why is this?
It cuts people off from society and by today you don’t need to be a programmer to use technology and it is programming that is the disruptive technology.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog this week.
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No lecture, Blog 9

24/10/2009
Danielle Boden
elu6d2

E-Publishing
Lecture 8
Blog 8

Hello!

How are we all this week? Well unfortunately we begin today on a bad note, there was no lecture today, but fear not! I have looked over the lecture criteria for this week so here is an over view of what I have learnt, be warned though it is only an overview but I have provided several links for you to follow should you wish to find out more;

This week was going to be about Podcasting and software garden.
Here are definitions of what the two of them are (I hope);

Pod cast = the word Pod cast is made up of the words broadcasting and iPod. It is an application whereby iPod users can download chosen audio or video content over the Internet and stream it to your iPod or computer to listen to or watch. It can be distributed worldwide. It is cheap to create because for an audio all you need is a microphone and Internet connection and can reach those ho wish to share it with you.

For more information visit;

BBC. (2009) What is a Podcast?

Orden, Jason Van. (2005-2008) How to Podcast. (Last accessed 24/11/2009)



Software Garden = Was founded by Dan Bricklin in 1985 and he develops and markets his own software tools providing consulting services in conjunction with his developments primarily performed by him. Bricklin provides new innovations and participates in the software industry directly. He also creates pod casts which would be relevant to the business industry providing information for a niche market who wish to gain knowledge about software licensing and open source providing information at an in depth practical level.

For more information visit;

Cconsulting, speaking and software development site run by Dan Bricklin.

Visicalc. (2009) Dan Bricklin’s Website. (Last accessed 24/11/2009)

Now that you have read this weeks lecture. Why don’t you take a break and visit You Tube, which gives a simple visual overview of what a Pod cast is:


Or, if you’re really eager you can view the Northern Illinois University presentation of ‘What is a Pod cast?’


Thank you for taking the time to read my blog this week.
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Lecture 7, Blog 8

17/11/2009
Danielle Boden
elu6d2

E-Publishing
Lecture 7
Blog 7

Hello again everyone!

How are you? Well today I have received some feedback as to how I am progressing with my blogs. I have come to learn that in my blogs I need to focus on the following:
- Expand on points made in class (explore them).
- Back points up that are made in class by further reading, focus on specific examples.
- Make use of links, this will enhance the ‘blogosphere’ of my individual blog.
- With the longer blogs, look at focusing on specific points and expanding on them, bringing in my own facts, opinions and examples.
- Push the boundaries of what I have learnt and discovered myself offering others the opportunity to disagree.

Okay so to get on with what I have learnt today. I was more involved in today’s lecture as when time has gone by I feel more confident that I am more educated around the subject of e publishing and what blogging is in particular. However, I will get to that later.

Firstly, lets look at programming systems.
Flock is a free social web browsing system that is based around blogging. It is run by fire-fox and enables users to review other people’s blogs on a set of feeds. All of these interactive systems relate to the world of e publishing, however, how does this affect the publishing world?



Within the e-publishing world there are a wide range in which it can be enhanced and contents can be made to be more interesting and interactive with features such as picture, video and discussion forum applications. As a result, this expression creates a ‘blogosphere’ where everybody links to each other’s blogs, forming discussions, debates and enhancing knowledge.

You can look at its process in relation to the publishing system:

Opinion
Links (Resources)
IN
Fact
Comments

Knowledge
Discussion (Comments) OUT
Hobbies

You are the owner of the blog, the actors and therefore the blog begins with your input. It is then as a result of the links to other people’s blogs that create the ‘blogosphere’. Therefore, it can be argued that a blog is not an individual statement but a collaborative discussion.

A blog is one type of content that is syndicated. Flickr is a very communicative blog as it is an image blog whenever people comment on the images it creates a link to your blog.



When participating in a blog, creating the ‘blogosphere’, in relation to e-commerce blogs for businesses, who are the beneficiaries. For example; how would a newspaper benefit form participating in blogs?
A newspaper would benefit from this primarily from the impact of society adding value to the newspaper content.

In contrast to this there are companies who rely principally on CROWDSOURCING. This is where the publisher gains value from the content added for free from the public, Facebook is a classic example of this, gaining value from the publics content and comments people leave for free. In addition to this, in relation to e publishing, it can also be agued that Facebook is a blog, which has impacted the world creating a worldwide phenomenon.

From the discussion today what we have learnt first a foremost is that e publishing changes most things.

Interactive Fiction:

Below are some examples of places online where you can find interactive fictions. The most renowned interactive fiction author is Kate Pullinger who has created interactive fictions including; IInanimate Alice, The Breathing Wall and Flight Path.

Lies

The Breathing Wall Web Tester created by Kate Pullenger Publisher: Babel This interactive fiction is very interesting and groundbreaking. Pullinger has created an interactive fiction whereby it responds to the breaths you take and as a result this will change the story altering the direction you take.



Inanimate Alice. Another interactive digitial fiction created by Kate Pullinger. So far is a 4 out of 5 part series which tells the story of a young girl called Alice growing up in the early part of the 21st century which she experiences and tells her story along side her imaginary digital friend Brad who exists on her phone.

Flight-paths; This is the latest digital fiction created by Kate Pullinger which explores the happenings of peoples lives when they collide unexpectedly.

Kate Pullinger Homepage

So what is the difference between interactive fiction and hyperfiction?

Interactive fiction is when an enlivening software environment for users is used to create text commands whereby users control characters and influence the environment and where a story leads.
Information interpreted from;

Nelson, Graham. (2001) “A Short History of Interactive Fiction”. (Last accessed 17/11/2008)

Whereas Hyperfiction is a form of online literacy which is characterised by its use of hypertext which create new hypertext links as a result providing new context for a non-liner format for a literary piece. So basically, as a user you choose your desired links from one node to another, moving you from one part of the text to another. This then raises new potential stories, which you have carved the path out for. Another aspect of hyper fiction in contrast to interactive fiction is that it is all predetermined. In that you can still interpret the story from whichever oath you wish to choose but if you get it wrong the computer will not understand and you will have to start again or it will re direct you.

Information interpreted from;

Kendell. (n.d) What is Hypertext Literature.

When looking at, using or creating interactive fiction or hypertext fiction what should be considered is how can this be distributed and how can you make money out of it.
What do you think? Can you easily make money out of creating online interactive fictions?

P.S. Just a short apology because I still can’t get my computer to integrate my links into the blog so that you can click on the link and then it will take you directly to the webpage. I know how to do it but my computer doesn’t seem to allow it to follow through… hopefully I can sort them all out before submission! Arghhh!

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog this week.
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Reading Week, Blog 7

Hello everyone!

How are we all?

Well it is the Friday of reading week and I have spent the week working on my dissertation primarily. I am creating a website for a traditional welsh folk dance group that I am apart of and I am getting them completely up-to-date with technology! After doing my research for my dissertation over the summer, compiling the contents of the website such as images, video's, music and information about the group I am finally creating the 'masterpiece'.

So, this week I have created 5 different web pages based around the group... here are the links should anyone wish to visit them;

= Facebook

= Ning

= MySpace

= YouTube

And this is the link to my blog which I am keeping in conjunction with my dissertation to write about my thoughts and feelings and processes of creating the website, Danielle Boden's Dissertation Blog.

However, alongside this I have been reading over what we have learnt so far on this course.
We are over half way through the course now, so, what have we learnt?



Summary;

• John Gutenburg, adapted the screw press for the purpose of manufacturing printed press.

• Conglomerates = Business that merge together that ultimately have nothing to do with one another, such as books and the world wide web, in the hope of producing more revenue.

• Cottage Industry = Industry on a small scale. Companies which create goods for niche markets.

• Coser, Did an in depth study of the American book publishing industry however by today this has very limited value as it is perceived as dated using the idea of the ‘gatekeeper’.

• Andre Schiffrin, Was the managing director of an American trade publishing house called ‘Pantheon’. He believes that books today are only for entertainment value however dies see hope for small independent publishers as he believed books will not be completely extinct.

• Jason Epstein, editorial director at Random House, stipulated,
“a cottage industry within an industrial conglomerate makes no sense”.

• Publishing value chain, publishing fields; the publishing industry can be contextualised by a set of publishing fields.

• Social structure of the publishing field;
- Economic
- Human
= The creation of CAPITAL
- Symbolic
- Intellectual

Within the conclusion of Books in a Digital Age, by John B. Thompson, he summarises what he believes that 21st century has to offer within the media and how it will control the global economy changing the way in which we communicate;
“New technologies linked to digitalization are transforming the ways in which individuals interact with others and are revolutionizing the industries that have traditionally been concerned with the creation and dissemination of symbolic content”.

What we can surmise from this is that what we have learnt so far, in simple terms is that e-publishing is revolutionising the world of publishing and taking it into a new ea of online communication offering itself to a wider audience whereby the audience are not just the readers but the publishers too. As a result of this globalisation of online reading there are several options f e-publishing ranging from blogs, journals and tweets, online books, audio books and book on demand as well the journalism industry taking hold of this new media and we now have online newspapers and all television news can be found online. E-publishing is not just the written article but video’s, people’s thoughts and feelings (blogs and twitter), you could argue that everyone who holds a Facebook page is an e-publisher in their own right.

I hope that this has refreshed your memory about what has been discussed concerning e-publishing and we will see if by the end of this module views have changed or not. I know one thing already though, and that is that I have learnt an awful lot about how to publish a blog and how to address everyone, create links, label post, and generally make my blog more appealing. My only hope is that I am improving and not getting worse!

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog this week.
Blog ya' later!

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Lecture 6, Blog 6

03/10/2009
elu6d2

E-Publishing
Lecture 6
Blog 6

Hello everyone!

I hope that you are all well? In this weeks blog I will be discussing text adventures. However, this week’s blog is rather short because I have added several links for you to follow and actually discover the world of text adventures for yourself.

HHGTG Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy



Electronic Publishing: So far we have been looking at the creative side of things within e-publishing such as hyper-fiction but this week we will be looking at interactive fiction. An interactive fiction is essentially one of the first computer games invented and were hugely popular in the late 80’s and early 90’s. An interactive fiction contains no images just text and you have to navigate your way through a story. You become the main character of a novel or a story and you have to figure out the correct ay through the story.

What is good about this software in the 21st century is that it can be installed and used on mobiles. What must be remembered about these programmes is that it is not that the computer is clever; the computer is only as intelligent as the computer programmer makes it. The coding never changes but you can change the story. The story is already programmed into the text and ha been conjured up to several variations to allow the story to take different paths.

Like I was saying earlier this format is similar to hypertext but it is not hypertext it is a narrative, it is more novelistic. There are strengths from both things but with this format it is constrained in ways in which hypertext is not.

By today there is software whereby you can have what is called a ‘walk through’ or a cheat so that if you don’t know yourself or can’t figure out what to correctly to move forwards you can no heat to get it right!

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog this week.
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E-Publishing Blogs: Idea for Practice led 'artefact'

Please visit the website for the e-publishing page that I am creating about e-publishing page.

http://e-publishing.ning.com/

Idea for Practice led 'artefact'

Hello Everyone!

Well I have been reading some people's blogs from class and they are really good, really inspiring, so thank you. I thought that I would post an additional, separate blog from the lectures as I have chosen what I am going to do for my practical led piece of work for the assignment worth 60%. ‘Finally’ I hear you say! I have already begun to build a Ning page, creating a social networking page consisting of information about e publishing, you could say an e-publishing page about e publishing? I have decided that this class is the perfect opportunity for me to enhance my knowledge of e publishing and also enable me to express on another level my understanding of what e publishing is and what its impact has had on today's society. By creating this site this will open up the multi-model aspect of e publishing enabling users to interact directly with us with a forum, video's, pictures etc. My overall aim, and hope, is that this will enhance my knowledge and other people's knowledge of what e publishing is and people actively interact with discussions regarding the topic.



For my practical project to be a success for the module I will aim to ensure that my social networking site is easy to navigate whilst offering a variety of multimodal based applications that will enable users to interact with both the webpage and contact myself directly about e publishing. I am also ensuring that I link my blog URL to the main Ning web page, inviting all members to join, spurring people on to comment and get the web page going. Of course I will be the curator and manage the web page but in order for it to become a success people must comment and interact with the web page resulting in learning about and being apart of e publishing.

Please would people kindly comment on whether you agree or disagree with the idea I have, I am very open to suggestions!

Thank you very much for your time reading this blog.

Take care and ‘blog ya’ later!’.

elephants_are_supercool

Lecture 5, Blog 5

27/10/2009
Danielle Boden
elu6d2

E-Publishing
Lecture 5
Blog 5

E-Publishing: What effect will technology have on publishing in the 21st century. Looking primarily at direct effects. Think about the ‘shop of technologies’ and how it is going to affect the role of their business.

What are the ramifications of e-publishing?

Looking online at the BBC



News pages this gives an example of how technology (e-publishing in particular) has changed. You will have a typical BBC News story which until approximately 10 years ago would have been submitted to the general public via broadcasting on television reading only the first few lines of the press release.

If it were the Guardian writing there would be more writing.

At this time also people would have written in to comment.

Example of how the process of a story and distributed and commented on last decade;
- Headline.
- Editorial.
- Comments from the public, which are sifted through at the publisher’s choice.
- Gone by the following week unless you went to a local library archive.

This is seizing to happen by today with the World Wide Web, giving us a new version of the news.
- WWW.BBCNEWS.CO.UK
- Main Headline.
- Story.
- Question and Answer on main story page.
- Many child pages in relation to the news story, summary, backgrounds.
- Hypertext, linking one story to another, BUT it is not so much a multi media platform yet.
- Not one person writes the story. Several people do. (Extra, differing reports from other reporters).
- Video’s – Most written stories now have a video in conjunction with the story that has been hyperlinked. This is an interesting factor because hyperlinks connect to external sites that are not the BBC. They are showing readers their sources – direct lines to them.
- Features/Views/Analysis.
- You an bookmark the story or the website onto a social networking site this making you become part of the news by distributing it and promoting the story to others as you believe that it is interesting/important. (If people don’t think that news is not important then it is not news).
- You choose what you read.

What you can see from these lists is that there has been a considerable change in the way in which news is distributed from the 20th through to the 21st century.



When a newspaper is published they place their stories into a particular order to assist the manipulation of the eye into looking at specific stories.
However, when you are online this is different.


When looking at a story online and clicking from hyperlink to hyperlink you can very quickly loose which page you are on. Technologists are looking for a way to prevent this online problem with web browsers but nothing has been discovered as yet.

Videos are another issues with online news. Videos are put with written stories for several reasons; to give the reader the option to read the story or view it (possibly both if you wish), to see two sides of the story (although it is the same story line that is being published when you read something to when you watch it you can interpret it in a different way). However, the issue with videos is that they can be very slow in uploading and actually don’t contain the level of detail that a written story would have.

Technologies;

- Hyperlinks, enable you to jump from one story to another.
- Video/Audio, sometimes a video is useful for an audience but most literate people would choose to read a story rather than watch it as you can choose what you read and you get more detail as to what the news is (you can easily skip what you watch plus most of the time there is advertising at the beginning of the video). Despite this, if it is a sports item it is the reverse. People would rather see the action (what’s happened?) rather than read about it.

Does an online facility of the news elevate a story?
It is a fact that it is very good to give a reader the option to read in the newspaper, online or watch a video, but does having an article online or a video change the story? It does in some respects in that it can add a level of emotion through video that a newspaper article couldn’t unless they were using prolific details.

Technologies have epitomised the notion of taking a story out of context and turning it into truth. Nevertheless, is all this choice a good thing?
What is happening in today’s news is that stories are being made out of nothing as due to constant 24/7 news there is a need to fill the slots. The news stations are rushed to produce news and as a result sometimes not enough information is gathered before the story is written or broadcasted and the consequence of this is that audiences quickly loose interest.

The BBC is not the most current online news distributor. If you at American newspaper websites or television news websites what they do that the BBC don’t is allow reader’s to comment freely on an article, whatever their thoughts maybe. The BBC doesn’t carry comments online in the way that they do in America such as the Washington Post where there is always at least 1 comment whereby someone disagrees with the article or what someone else has commented on. Therefore, technology is allowing readers to comment immediately on the story without any editing or pre-approval.

So, why does the BBC not do this?
The BBC does not do this due to one of their core values: ‘to be impartial’. However this could be construed to be slightly hypercritical because it is the BBC whom decides whose comments are published in conjunction with the news story. Their argument would be that is there were only slanderous comments, or only positive comments they would not be fulfilling their remit and also another one of their values is o ‘educate’ and if there are unedited incorrectly spelt comments on their website once again this would result in incorrect procedure.

What is the effect of these comments on a news story?

The first problem created by this is that we don’t know who wrote the comments as when online people use usernames and these comments and change the interpretation of a story.

The Gatekeeper;

A person who controls what content and information goes through the gate (website or written article). However by today the publisher is not quite the gatekeeper that they used to be.
Quotes lead in stories as they do with videos and you have to be in the game to play the game.

ACHIPELAGO



A system whereby you could post and view creative writing or free but you work had to be pre approved and edited before publishing and printing. Journals.

There was an American poet called Emily Dickenson wrote hundreds of poems which during her life not one of them were published as she didn’t send them off to any magazines, newspapers or publishing houses to ask for publishing. It wasn’t until after her death that the pile of poetry was discovered and was published.

Soft systems methodologies and hard systems methodologies.

If you are the gatekeeper and you read something and you like it does it mean it is good? No.
If you like it does it mean that your friends will like it and other readers? No.

In = Poems and stories
Out = Content of the journal.

For this to happen people have to be involved.

INPUTS = Writer who produces
Editor completes a quality check.
Reviewer, is there for a second opinion.
Graphic designers.
Web designers.

Who benefits from this?
Who is the client?
Who wants to content? People who are interested in the content of the journal and are web literate.
Who can stop this? If you don’t fill a journal on a regular basis the funding will stop.

C - Client = Reader
A - Actors = Writers, editors, reviewers
T -Transformation = Technicians, web designers etc…
W - World view = What does everyone else think of it? Reader’s, publishing houses, importance?
O - Owner = Is the writer or the publisher?
E - Environment = Lulu, Amazon. Similar content, technology changes, people stop buying paper and only do things online.

Lulu; If you were a publishing company and you were going to use lulu to create your book then Amazon would sell and ship it out for you how would the process work?

Input = Production (ACTORS) = Client (OUTPUT) =
Technology Lulu Readers – People who are interested
Design Writers in that genre/subject.
Ink Editors
Content Reviewers
Paper
Printing
Facilities

Lulu;

What does it enhance?

- Makes one thing bigger by helping to distribute it promoting it to a wider audience.
- Good for creating and giving gifts on special occasions.
- Saves money on mass-producing books that may not sell and only publish on demand.
- Extends the life of a book as can be saved and reproduced at any time.
- More design options, you can reinvent old novels.
- Encourages more people to write.

What does it replace?

- Publishing agencies.
- Printer agencies.
- No choice
- Bookstores
- Warehouses
- Transport
- Carbon emissions (on the other hand you could argue that it increases carbon emissions because despite initially reducing it as postmen are not delivering vans of books some of which may go unsold but now have t make smaller journeys more often to deliver the odd book or two.)

What does it revive?

- Postal service
- Creative writing/courses
- Out of print texts to be revived and re-read.
- Limited appeal
- Love of books
- Small publishing houses.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog this week.
Blog ya' later!

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Lecture 4, Blog 4

19/10/2009
Danielle Boden
elu6d2

E-Publishing
Lecture 4
Blog 4

Web blogging, what is it?
• Web page has the most recent item at the top.
• Links to other blogs.
• In relation to political candidates now have to have web blogs because people (hundreds) comment on it.

WHY would they want a blog where people can write negative comments and disagree with party political policies?

• Popular
• Everyone is blogging - it is ‘techie’, up to date.



• Primary source of news for a large demographic, for example: Obama claims his success was primarily due to his Web campaign.
• Looking at history if politicians didn’t have their face on the television their reputation was unknown and they would be criticised by the media for not appearing on television, this is very much the situation now with blogging.
• It gets your name out there.
• Builds support

The problem with blogging is that stories get lost in translation and if something is repeated often enough it will become truth. For example: there has been a recent story on the toxic waste where the company have placed an injunction against the media not to report what happened. Therefore the people will try to find the answer but it does not necessarily mean that what they have found is the truth behind the story.
Here is the link to the BBC's coverage of this story:

Written article by the BBC.

Original written article by the Guardian.

Twittering is just an extreme form of blogging.

Liability and slander… who is responsible? On blog sites you agree to terms and conditions not to slander however you may not realise you have agreed to these conditions, as most people do not read the small print. There is also a disclaimer whereby the web publisher, (blogger.com etc…), advise that the opinions held on this site are not necessarily that of the publisher.

So what is the importance of truth in blogs?
• It is a propaganda tool. (‘blogasphere’)
• Known as ‘astro-surfing’ because there would be a big back lash if an extremely was told, bad implications.
• No opinions on blogging have an origin point.
• Animosity! No person or institution. ANONOMOUS.
• Other than politics or companies (institutions) to humanise and deliver their opinions.
• Blogs are casual and has a human face (real blog) – how many are actually like this? It is a way of communicating.
• However: there are t ways of defining blogging there is the technical definition of a web page with the most recent post at the top or the definition of blogging in practice.


Why is a blog not a political tool?

RSS: Really Simple Syndication. Putting the word out to people. RSS Feed.
XML: All in one content and can be distributed in different ways.

Read. Write. Web The basic idea is useful. You don’t have to go looking for it all it comes to you.
On the Bangor Website and even your own computer you can subscribe to certain RSS web pages through your URL. To do this save it through your fire-fox.

FLOCK: Social Web Browser. Look for RSS feeds.



Webpage. XML. Ends in RSS. Channels, items have a title and a link.
Feed: You don’t often create these yourself, and you don’t normally keep them up to date manually.

Tags: - metadata about the construction of an RSS feed. You wouldn’t make a website like this.
The browser knows that it is and RSS feed made up of an XML format, therefore the dtat base creates the code for you.

Moral and legal implications of adding value to your webpage have links back to the other/original article. Google-ad-sense – Gives you a code that goes on your webpage.
How do they make money form it?
Advertising – From every click your money accrues.
= Industry.
Sponsorship.

Increase profile as an industry expert – get their name out there – raise profile.

Money doesn’t taint anything it just makes it possible to produce. You can’t use blogs as a reference point because you don’t know who wrote it, it is not a reliable source. You can do background research to see if it can be more reliable.

So, how can you quote something from a blog?

Is it a source?
There will have been no peer or editorial reviews. No one is checking for spelling, grammar or formatting mistakes.
The facts and sources need to have been checked and double-checked. It might be your opinion but is there support to back up why I am or could be right.

In my blog entry in week three looked at publishing a book and had to think about it in a blog.

Artefact. Editorial project where you make things available, however, do we understand what is being described?

Why do we need to e-publish theory in action – learn it then apply theory.

e-kindel.

Potentially opening up the changes I your opinion about the traditional book. It is something you don’t know about until you try it.

Easy access to texts.

Recombining content
= Adding value
Different layouts and design

For next week;

What are the possibilities of publishing and e-book and how can I best leverage that?

What sort of project are you going to be doing and why?

Look at other peoples blogs and leave positive and negative feedback of evidence of sources, arguments, strengths and weaknesses.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog this week.
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Lecture 3, Blog 3

13/10/2009
Danielle Boden
elu6d2

E-Publishing
Lecture 3
Blog 3

Lulu: An online publishing site that gives you the facility to turn ay text, or photographs into a book within an hour.




In the olden days a Scribner would be employed to write letters on behalf of companies ad most importantly copy contracts! There were no duplicating machines in those days therefore everything had to be copied by hand.

Gutenberg Project: Collecting texts that are out of copyright in America.




Copyright: The issue with text, when is its expiry date?

There is no need for a licence to sell an online book this is just for third parties. A Gutenberg licence gives you the facility, permission and conformation about the text that is on the Gutenberg website as to whether or not you can use and sell it.

Question: Does copyright belong to one person? i.e. if you can publish Emma on Gutenberg then who owns the copyright? You or Penguin books etc that are still publishing Emma today?

Orality and literacy:
Print and writing are two different things.

1) Profound effect on society as once something is written down on paper there is no going back you can’t change it.
2) Paper is tangible but who owns it?
3) There is more of an importance on spelling and grammar.

The written book has also secluded us as a person because before you would sit in a group of people listening to the stories being told but now there is the infamous saying of ‘I will go and take my book and sit in a quite corner’.

The effects initially on the world when print became available was that there was uproar that it was expensive so not all classes could afford it but also regardless of this people could read for themselves therefore decipher if they wanted to believe something or not and interpret it in their own ways. In relation to the bible the printed book brought along the reformation because before a limited amount of people would tell the story of the bible and when doing so would speak in Latin so it was kept as private as possible, now it as being written down, translated etc it meant people could decide for themselves. People did no like this shift in story telling and mass producing text and this is the similar transition that we are seeing now people do not want to change as the whole way in what you trust is dependable.

The 21st century book: Typesetting and then printed but now we have files.
These files are standardised.
PDF: Run through Adobe.
XML/HTML; Hypertext mark-up language. Standardised version of the text XML.
Book Meta; metadata, data about data.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog this week.
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Lecture 2, Blog 2

06/10/2009
Danielle Boden
elu6d2

E-Publishing
Lecture 2
Blog 2

Referencing: Everyone needs to use the Harvard referencing system to enable people to find what you have used in your coursework (Self led report, 60%)

A week will be from Monday to Monday to post each blog.

Contents of a blog:
For your blog you should look at:

- Talking to yourself/Personal chain of thoughts
- Ask and answer questions
- Agree or disagree with anything said in class or further reading?
- Critique
- Any information you have heard or read integrates it in with you self-taught knowledge.
- Needs to be an informal academic blogs therefore needs; citations, footnotes/endnotes, bibliography, - Links that have been read, class comments.
- How do you present yourself… will this gain you respect?
- List of all your blogs will be in reverse chronological order, most recent at the top.

Central Topics discussed in class:

• How will technology change how we look at view things; history, languages, books…
• How much has actually happened?
• What is the author/reader relationship now?
• How do you keep the online system running – Backlist, long-tail model, fermium model, are there any other models?
• How do you define the business your in? Disruptive technology.
• In the U.K we don’t pick the best we pick what works.
• Synthesising
• Take something and re build it into your own words.
• When they get it right, how and why did they get it right?

Rattle of the Pebbles
By: Jason Epstein



He describes the publishing world as being a ‘cottage industry’.
He explains how the publishing world works in general, (see the publishing value chain);
creation – yes – re-write – quality and control – (spelling and grammar) – copy editing – font/design – typeset – proof reading – bound – marketing distribution – sell – read

General terms:

Publish Value Chain



Publisher:-
Made of; editorial department, desk editing department, marketing departments and marketing acquisition.

Function:-
List building, financial investment, advise taking, content development, quality control, management, co-ordination, sales and control.

Publishing Industry:-
Acquires symbolic content (rights to content, and processes this content).
Locating financial capital to convert this content.
Convert content into books.
Distributes and sell converted content.
Protecting a publisher’s investment.

Symbolic content: Works to a 20/80 ratio but will work out that the 20 will make you money.

Publishing Cycle:
20/80
↓
Profit Ratio
↑ ↓
Take on project
↑ ↓
leads to decide prices and price runs
↑ ↑
Out of print leads to
↓ ↑ ↑
Revert to author leads to Reprint
↓ ↓ ↓
Rights ↓
Complete decision

Publishing rights have four types of capital to keep it going:
1) Economic
2) Human
3) Intellectual
4) Symbolic

Publishing field;
1) Type of content
2) Type of market
3) Linguistic field/Language
4) Territorial field
5) Technological field

E publishing allows you to cut the middleman therefore as a result we are seeing a shift in the publishing field.

Question: What about piracy? With cutting out the middle man who is going to inspect for piracy?

Robin Sloane: An American blogger; He wrote a short story to a small audience through a kindle and through Amazon. Then he wrote another but didn’t post a free version until there was 100 e-kindel downloads then he posted his work. He then went onto do publishing on demand and is requesting people pledge for him to write another story and your investment in the project.

Shift has gone direct from publisher t reader via files. We no longer know what we own. What do we have the rights to do with it?

Project Gutenberg.

What is it? It is a website that has built/building a list of great literatures from passed say authors using money supplied but the government, creating audio books for free.

70% of authors around the world speak English that control the symbolic content. Barriers have now been put up between the author and the publishers as there has been a change in how the chain works i.e. the author, the book, the market, the reader, now just author to reader.

People are less inclined to back new names they prefer to stick with established names, as there are less risks. Over time this has also changed in that as the middle man has gradually been pushed out there are no relationships anymore between the author and the published as text can be given straight to the reader.

Writing has gone from word of mouth, to a small office shared by both the author and the publishers to a big conglomerate.

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Lecture 1, Blog 1

29/09/2009
Danielle Boden
elu6d2

E-Publishing
Lecture 1
Blog 1

James Joyce – The last novel. No one wanted to print his book because it contained nudity and poor grammar. They used cheap paper to print the book at the book store whom printed it originally still stands and is running today in Paris.

• Artefact
• ‘Old’ publishing methods

How have we moved from the tangible books to the non-physical nature that is online publishing?

What is the definition of a book in the 21st century?
Does it still have the same meaning?
What is publishing? We now have the opportunity for both authors and consumers to opt for publishing on demand whereby you can have a book published only as and when a customer wishes to purchase it.
Look at publishing like music - Spotify

Course Structure:
• The publishing value chain.



• What is a: book, author and publisher by today?
• Disruptive technology, what is this?
• How are things shifting in the publishing/e-publishing world? E Publishing is more interactive for the consumer, but a physical book is tangible, keepsake.
• Visual novels; gives you the opportunity of different ways of telling stories. Inanimate Alice, you will create your own as part of the course. Look at this and other visual novels for research.

Books also have never always been around before these stories were told by word or mouth.
Word or mouth – Books – E-Publishing… huge leaps in time and massive changes… what went on in-between these changes how have things developed?

Portfolio:
1) Write a blog on Blogger.com each week about the lecture. What you have learnt, positives, negatives, agree/disagree, anything you would like to add, comments, feedback, thoughts and feelings about what you have learnt is there anything else you would like to learn, will you be looking anything up for yourself?

Send link to Eben for the blog so that he can access it and review what has been written for marking, 3 out of the 12 ill be looked at closely an if you miss a lecture this will become one of the 3 that will be marked.
e.muse@bangor.ac.uk

2) Develop and e publishing project, a visual novel.

3) 2000 word critique (what have you created, what are the outcomes, what would you change, positives, negatives, successes, failures, problem, context, method, outcomes and conclusion.)

What is e-publishing?

Definitions;

• Way of telling stories/expressing views.
• Online/World Wide Web so global access/Available everywhere.
• Interchangeable.
• Not set in stone, ever changing.
• Non physical
• Vast audience.
• Direct.
• Multimedia.
• Multiplatform.
• Distribution.
• Interactive.
• Contextual.

- Interactive worldwide access to a multiplatform media service.
- Ever changing interactive worldwide access to a multimedia platform that is without limits or rules.

- Digital distribution of content to a public audience distribution, which may define its own audience.

For next week;
1) Write out first blog.

2) Read J. Epstein (how publishing has changed).



3) Browse through elegies.



4) Read first few chapters of ‘Books in a Digital Age’ by Don P Thompson.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog this week.
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