Online newspapers

The traditional newspaper has to share protagonism with the online ones. As this lasts are becoming increasingly popular thanks to their accessibility and the fact that they are almost free. When they first appeared they supposed a challenge for digital editors to turn traditional newspapers in online newspapers.

An online newspaper, also known as a web newspaper, is a newspaper that exists on the Internet, either separately or as an online version of a printed periodical.  Going online created more opportunities for newspapers, such as competing with the television and the radio journalism in presenting breaking news in a timelier manner. This means that now, newspapers can publish breaking news content online when journalist had enough information to write the piece of news.

This has helped a lot when time to decrease costs came. The lack of paper and ink to publish decreased the cost of publication and cheapen it. That allows offering PDF version of the printed newspaper cheaper than printed one and the possibility of buying the section the buyer wants. In addition when publishing, the editor can include multimedia content like videos and sounds.

References:

• Online newspaper. (2009, December 8). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12:07, December 30, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Online_newspaper&oldid=330561429
• From print to web e-paper. The challenge of designing the e-newspaper. (2004). In Diginews. Retrieved December 30, 2009 from http://diginews.se/files/040627_elpub_carina_maria_stig.pdf

New era of publication: blogs

Every Internet user is aware of the existence of the blogs. Their use has been growing since the beginning of the new millennium. People seem to use it for many different purposes such as personal blogs, political or even academic.  This blog actually is academic.

At the beginning the blogs were written manually and the HTML code included in the same way. Afterwards, they became more advanced and posts could be written more easily. At this point is when the start their growth and little by little reaching the people at the street. In addition to this growth some legal problems start to happen, the possibility of publish content without confirmation supposed a problem both in academic and gossip world.

Platforms such as Blogger, Word Press or La Coctelera are one of the most important blog publishers in Spain. Content publishing and editing all around the world with just an Internet connection is one the appeals of this new way of publishing and thus the digital edition of texts in order to adapt them to the screen.

Wordpress

References:

• Blogging: personal participation in public knowledgebuilding (2005) by Mark Brady. In University of Essex. Retrieved December 26, 2009. From: http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/content/pubs/wps/CWP-2005-02-blogging-in-the-Knowledge-Society-MB.pdf
• Blog. (2009, December 22). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:16, December 27, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blog&oldid=333203987