Webblog- We never fail to rely it whenever needed

webblogs are increasingly popular day by day..perhaps we rely too much?

Feeling curious and wanted to know the latest gadget or even would want to find out when is I-phone 5 coming out?.. there goes webblog... or even wanted to plan a special dinner for your loved ones? webblog reviews will take care of you in making sure you wont have a disaster during your dinner because, there are tons of tons of review on food that waiting for you to explore. This can help people to make a decision and find out on the particular restaurant before making final conclusion..

one of the most popular company that pays blogger

Furthermore, with the wide blogs available throughout the web world... it generally gives the society to understand and know more information rather than relying on conventional sources like word of mouth, or even our great olden days where newspaper is our primary source when comes to information. Webblog can be one of the quickest source that provides all the latest and hot news for society. Take it for instance, gadget freaks can able to catch the latest spy shots of  (let say I-phone 5) even before releasing to the market.. or even read and find out reviews on the new Iphone like the usability, functions, value for money or even tips on using the phone before actually deciding whether would want to purchase the phone... another popular webblog portal would be our famous Paultan.org that purely based on car reviews and latest news that became popular in years of opereating the blog and founder of Paultan.org is earning good income for just writing reviews and updating his blog with latest news on cars and bikes.

Blog for interest or money?

In fact we can see alot of bloggers started to blog because there are companies that pays blogger whenever they contribute a post. Famous bloggers like Sixth.seal, kennysia.com, smashin.popstar, and so on would have been earning alot due to its high traffic visit to their blogs and they would easily get paid for the price of even a fresh graduate that work 10hours a day. Easy job and money come... Company like Nuffnang, Adverlets, Google ad sense started to pay bloggers by counting cost per click each and this simply works by advertising some latest ads in their webpage and there goes the money starts to accumulate by the blogger. The more frequent  unpdate, the more traffic a blogger will get..so...

However, when comes to weblogs, some would say it rather a question mark especially when comes to content credibility because there are too many bloggers out there that writes the same content. For example,.the new Audi A6, some would say its good, some would say its not good...so which one should I trust? and given the price of the car, of course I would not want to simply waste my hard earn money when I choose the wrong choice just because of believing people's review.But look at the bright side, with webblogs, it generally helps us to manage things easier especially with all the smartphones and portable laptops....Imagine you are on the way to Penang and you are unsure where is the famous asam laksa...so just pop out your smartphone and start searching and there goes the food review and information that helps you get there easier.

In the nutshell, with the popularity of web blogs and information given, I see there is no reason that books published by writers would replace the web blogs because no matter how books are the only one that gives more credibility when comes to content sources. Would you trust an unknown web-blogger or book when comes to doing your research? You choose..

Media Convergence-We talking about mixing now

 Media Convergence? What does it mean to you anyway?...... well, in general, it is a two or more distinct entities combined together and with the word "convergence" is so increasingly prevalent in the new era... it more suitable to relate with combination of two or more technologies in a single device.... getting clear? think of Smartphone or to make it simple.... your iPhone that you are owning it right now... what can your iPhone does? multitasking?, taking a simple photo of you and your friends? or even simply just play your music and turn your phone into MP3 player? or even send a quick message to your friends?......Convergence may influence consumer in accepting new technologies like tablet pc (iPad,Galaxy Tab, Playbook) are more increasingly popular and with the bulky size..people still want to own it...why? because its new technology anyway.....and one of the good example would be analog is slowly disappear in newer generations and all now is done by digital way like our local newspaper TheStar, they also provide us their news in online portal for those who wants timely news and get fast update like football scores...like Chelsea vs Liverpool match and with online you get instant results..not by waiting until next day.... everything is quick...that is the key that most organization practicing now...

The good thing of convergence is able to do whatever we in a same device....think of multitasking capability... like your mobile phone turn into camera, mp3 player, video recorder, reading online news on the go and many more....

The bad thing is....with so many features in today's devices like our Iphone or smartphones.... it has becoming like a computer and can you still define a mobile phone or come to think of it, even watches also comes with all kinds of feature like storing phone numbers, making phone calls and so on....watch or smart-watch? how do you define a watch or a mobile phone where is not offering what it is?

In the nutshell, whatever improvement has done towards our latest devices like gaming console, mobile phones, even we do see watches that able to make calls, or even our cars powered by engines are soon to be replace by electric, reading online news...but we are still relying on the great old inventors that help us to became up till today... and everything we do these days saves us time and costs are greatly reduced too... simply type in "Latest news in town" and Mr.Google will do the job.........pretty fast and convenience isn't it?.... or stuck with your assignment half way...Mr.Google will do the job too..... unlike great old days where you have to go to the library and search for books that takes up lot of time....

Copyrights and Then?

Do not copy....

For this week's blogging, it will be Intellectual Property...by John W. Snapper...

Intellectual Property is basically an innovation, artistic or any unique symbol, logo or design used commercially and also widely world recognized by people..It is protected with patents on inventions rights, trademarks on branding for instance "M" for McDonalds, Three Star logo by Mercedes Benz, our kids favorite Mickey mouse is also a protected too..so...try to copy their designs and logo....where would you end up? 

Do you know..  The history of copyright law was introduced by the printing press in the late fifteenth century in England. The reason it was introduced was fairly simply because of the number presses grew tremendously and also publications of books by granting printers a near monopoly in England. The authorities decided to introduce the law to prevent people from copying or stealing ideas from the original publishers and press releases news. During the 1710, act of law established and renewed again by looking at author's ownership of copyright and copyrighted works which is subjected to last fourteen years and the option to renewable scheme if the author was alive upon expiration. The 1710 act established the principles of authors' ownership of copyright and a fixed term of protection of copyrighted works (fourteen years, and renewable for fourteen more if the author was alive upon expiration).

 However looking back, Intellectual property allows people from their very own trademarks or copyrighted hard work to be well protected and gain good benefit from there.....take it for instance, your very own music and once you air it to the world...you are risk to any kind of exposure like people can just copy your version and claim the music is theirs...and you lose your name and fame in just a split seconds... BUT with the intellectual property like copyright...you have the right to sue those who use your music without permission or even copy directly without informing you....


With these copyrighted and trademark, especially property like software, devices...this can greatly increases people's confidence and credibility towards your invention  like for instance the Nintendo WII gaming console...and speaking of copyrights and those laws... people still not aware of it and illegal downloads are widely used everyday without thinking of the copyright laws.... in fact, till today... programs like limwire, e-donkey, bit-torrent that based on P2P (Peer 2 Peer) servers are still heavily used by worldwide.... of course we love to download free of charge stuff but come to think of it..if you are the artist and what if people downloads your song but in illegal and free way... would you earn?...would you feel happy with it?....

In the nutshell, Intellectual Property protects people and a company own ideas/works from being used illegally and maintaining their credibility among people... this also helps people to recognize the branding of a company and a person without getting confused and loosing names because of other party copy your work.. Imagine if there is few Mickey character with slightly different features...you would be thinking which is the original Mickey..or if there is another big M golden arch would you think whether is it Mcdonalds? Credibility for a company and a person is also proved to be an important factor because, it represents your company status among public...without the laws, people would steal and use it without any problems...