New Media Publishing

New media is rapidly changing in the way we search, access and create news and information. The Internet has become the focal point for all those people who are not happy anymore with the quality, depth and breadth of whatever news mainstream media networks deliver.

Users have started to search information in new ways: if once upon a time the only way to find news was to turn on the TV or browse a newspaper, Internet users now prefer to type keywords in the most important search engines and then to scan the search results until they find exactly what they want.

New trends are emerging; not only users tend to look for more information on the Internet, but they are also increasingly open to look for alternative and more specialized news sources.

According to Wikipedia,
a. Device/media types of blogs:
• Moblog – mobile blogging, e.g. mobile.antonypranata.com
• Vlog – video blogging, e.g. askaninja
• Splog – spam blog, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_blog
• Linklog – URLs (hyperlinks) blogging, e.g. www.geekhideout.com/wlog.shtml
• Sketchlog – sketch blogging, e.g. Karin Rindevall’s sketch log
b. YouTube
c. Online newspaper
d. Online magazine
e. Online books

example of Youtube.

Reference:

The Hitwise Report 2007, US New Media Trends & Statistics [online, accessed 7 November 2008]

URL: http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2007/05/09/us_new_media_trends_and.htm

Wikipedia 2006, Blog [online, accessed 7 November 2008]

URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog