Many bloggers are under arrested.
Why???
Every country has similar cases when the bloggers are arrested. For example: Sony Corporation sued one Indonesian’s blogger named Sony Arianto Kurniawan because he used his own name as the domain of his blog which is sony-ak.com and unfortunately his name same with one of the biggest electronic company, Sony corporation. The content of this blog is only about knowledge from him but Sony AK has to give the domain Sony-ak.com to Sony Corporation (dakdem.com).
Is that wrong to use our own name as the domain of the blog? Then why did he get arrested? I think he is not guilty as long as he did not write something bad about Sony products.
The other case is from Seoul, the name is Park or known as Minerva has gotten busted because of his blog’s content. He wrote about the economic and gave many negative critics about what the government done. Some of those are really happen so many people believe that he is really professional. However, he has under arrested because he wrote that the government ask financial institution and big company to buy USD and they accused him of spreading the wrong information to people (udinkardus.multiply.com).
Many attorney of Democratic Society badgered until Park is being realized and they ask the investigators to stop their investigation. They feel the government is not fair because they penalized a person who want give an opinion and discuss it in internet. However, if Park is proven guilty, he will in jail for 5 years or fined by $US 37,000.
For another cases you can see in this sites : Apa Blogger Bisa Ditangkap Polisi?
References
Personal Blog
http://udinkardus.multiply.com/journal/item/112/seorang_blogger_korea_ditangkap_polisi.
http://yudhim.dagdigdug.com/2008/05/06/apa-blogger-bisa-ditangkap-polisi/
eBook is an electronic of printed books which is able to read on a hand-held devices and personal computer or laptop. There are the advantages and disadvantages of eBook and this some comments from eBook users: It would be great if we can share the eBooks with family or relatives and friends but sometimes it's in different format so it will encourage us to buy another devices (Jane, 2010). The other user, Matthew Humphries (2010) said that when he highlight some sections, it will sent back to Amazon server and it will be combined with other user's information to find out the most popular passages in different eBooks. However, Amazon will not share those information that was highlighted, they keep it as personal purposes.
eBooks will be use for all kind of ages like kids, teenagers, young adults, and adults.
The advantages of eBook compared with printed books:
· eBook may consist of millions kind of books, it depends on the memory
· Printed books need a space of room to put
· Many different languages are available
· Even though eBook device is more expensive than one book but it is still cheaper because it may download millions free books
· eBook may back up the file from losses or damages
· Environmental concern (the use of papers and ink may cause global warming)
The disadvantages of eBook:
· Not all kind of books available
· The formats or types are changing over the time because of the technology improvement
· Environmental concern (the device has some toxics in production, and disposal batteries)
References
Humphries, M 2010, ‘Amazon Starts Storing and Sharing Kindle eBook user highlight’, viewed 12 June 2010.
Jane 2010, ‘EBook Reader Survey Results and Winner’, viewed 11 June 2010.
http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2010/02/28/ebook-reader-survey-results-and-winner/
What is iPad?
Source: apple.com
iPad is a tablet computer designed by Apple Incorporation, it mixed between iTouch and notebook/laptop because iPad is touch screen and have iTouch functional as well. iPad was announced in January 2010 by Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs. Its starting price is $499 for 16GB and $599 for 32GB. iPad is a new form of multimodality which have more than one mode. Those modes are synchronized and may incorporate between moving images, music or sound and written language which are produced on paper or electronic screen (Walsh 2006). According to Arisel 2010, iPad is good combination of the most ordinary tasks and it is very suitable for young generation regarding to digital entertainment because iPad can play movies, music, photos, and observe the changes in social networks, read eBooks, and other million applications, games.
iPad has an application to read the books online which similar to other device called eBooks. The users just download the application and there are a lot of choices of books that offered.
For the users who have big fingers, iPad is suitable because the keypad is larger than iPhone and iTouch and it will make us type the mail easily.
iTunes is music player for Apple product. This iTunes has the exactly same fuction with all Apple products.
The user of iPad can also enjoy this application called Google map which has similar function with GPS.
iPad is suitable for businessman and businesswoman too, because iPad has application to make graphs or charts.
iPad has browser named Safary that allow the users to access and browsing any website.
With larger screen, watching movie is more convenient and we can bring it everywhere we want.
According to Mark Glasser (2010), iPad is expensive compare to other devices because other devices can do everything that iPad does, but it is cheaper than laptops/notebooks because iPad have feature similar with laptops so it depends on the consumers perspective and expectations. In screening sides, iPad’s screen is bigger than iTouch that is more convenient for users to read newspaper or watching movie and even playing games but it is quite heavy maybe because of the battery. There is a complaint from one user, Elaginn, he said that iPad has bigger size with very low memory which is 32 GB and without additional external memory, he is not satisfied with the memory because iPad has already used 2GB for operation system, 10GB for required software and he feels that the remaining 20GB is not enough for playing games, music, movies, etc.
References
Arisel, 2010, 'Apple iPad: Advantages and Disadvantages’, HubPages, viewed 7 June 2010.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Apple-iPad-Advantages-and-disadvantages
Elaginn, 2010, ‘Advantages and Disadvantages of iPad’, viewed at 7 June 2010.
http://quazen.com/shopping/consumer-electronics/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-ipad/
Glaser, M 2010, Glaser and Son Review the iPad’, Media Shift, viewed at 7 June 2010.
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/04/glaser-son-review-the-ipad098.html
Walsh, M 2006, ‘Textual Shift: Examining the Reading Process with Print, Visual and Multimodal Texts’, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 29, no.1, p.24-37.
(Unisa Electronic Library)
Newspapers, magazines, televisions, radios are the medium of news publication in the past. Technology is improving rapidly. According to Syed Jaymal Zahiid (2010), blogging is so yesterday, many politicians are using twitter now. Twitter is one of the new forms of publication that enables its users to sent and read messages known as tweets. Twitter can be used for spread information like gossip, education, economy and even politic.
For example, The President of United State, Mr. Barack Obama has an account on Twitter. He is able to interact with people from every country and can know what their opinions as well even when the elective of the president of United States, he was using Twitter to get the votes.
Barack Obama's Twitter
Furthermore, many well-known people like artists, celebrities, politicians even some organizations like CNN has a twitter. They can tell the audiences what they did and what they feel. For example, Indonesia has many ceelebrities which have a lot of fans, they are using twitter to inform their daily life, tell the audience what they feel when they become a topic in media because of their behavior and they can confirm whether the gossip is real or not whereas the fans follow their favorite actress or actors to know what they are doing. Beside, Twitter is allowing uploading some picture and letting people know where their location is.
CNN's Twitter
Source: twitter.com
However, there are some problems with Twitter. You may feel that you have thousand of followers who read your tweet but in fact maybe they are not (Smith, 2009). Besides, many people have negative effect of the fake account. For example, there are many fake accounts of well-known people and they spread the bad news and lie, it may cause controversial between the real people to the audience because of this misunderstanding. As a follower, they are not sure whether they are following the right account or not. Furthermore, according to Simon Owens (2009) many journalists are fooled by twitter pranksters. The twitter pranksters are a big problem because they can hacked the celebrities or politician’s twitter account to give wrong information and it may harm a lot of parties.
References
Owens, S 2009, ‘How Celebrities Imposters Hurt Twitter’s credibility’, viewed 5 June 2010.
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/02/how-celebrity-imposters-hurt-twitters-credibility051.html
Smith, T 2009, ‘The 12 Major Problems with Twitter and the Stephen Fry Backlash’, Social Media Today, viewed 5 June 2010.
http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/72690
Zahiid, SJ 2010, ‘Blogging is so Yesterday, Politicians Turn to Twitter’, viewed 5 June 2010.
