ePublishing_3_Forms of ePublishing

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Forms of ePublishing

eBooks

Peer-reviewed paper scientific journals

Blogs

Newsgroups

Internet forum

Newspapers

Ezines

WWW representation

TV www representation

Digital libraries

Digital encyclopedias

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Blog

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary http://www.merriam-webster.com/ declared "blog" as the word of the year in 2004:

"a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer
- blog•ger noun
- blog•ging noun"

Brittanica Online http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9404269/blog

Blog, in full Web log or Weblog
Journal in its original meaning: “online journal where an individual, group, or corporation presents a record of activities, thoughts, or beliefs.”

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Blogs can act as

News Filters
Original News Sources
Forums

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Internet media of Blogs:

Blogs on the www
newsletters sent by email
newsgroups

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Newsgroups
Newsgroups are like stored emails that are made public.

Moderated or open

Nature
Support groups
• Technical
• Social

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Internet forums operate on the www.

They can integrate newsgroups and chat rooms

in newsgroups posted information is public and preserved
in chat rooms posted information can be private and is lost

The can also integrate instant messaging.

Moderated WWW based Newsgroups

Example Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/waterdelib/

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Newspapers

“Web born” Newspapers

Print Newspapers with WWW Representation

• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung http://www.faz.net

• The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com

• Le Monde http://www.lemonde.fr

Newsmagazine (Newspaper/Ezine)
http://www.spiegel.de

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Ezines
• electronic articles, or infomercials (TV: paid programming)?

http://www.ezine-dir.com/

o BookThink http://www.ezine-dir.com/glinks/jump.cgi?ID=9171

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WWW representation
Consumer Reports: www representation of an organization shares aspects of an Ezine
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/cars/new-cars/index.htm

General classification

countries: fr, de, etc.
US none, but within the US
gov
edu
org
com

Applying the classification in the US

This classification scheme can be helpful to classify the sources. Let’s assume you are looking for an organization that helps you with your taxes.

gov US Internal Revenue Service

http://www.irs.gov/

or http://www.state.vt.us/tax/

edu Tax advice from University of Texas Austin for nonresident aliens.

http://www.utexas.edu/international/taxes/

org Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax

or Tobin tax initiative http://www.ceedweb.org/iirp/

com

http://www.easyfile.com/

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TV www Representation
News:
• CNN http://www.cnn.com/

• FOX http://www.foxnews.com/

Recording:
• Save TV http://www.save.tv/

Digital Libraries

• Kinsey collection http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/

Digital Encyclopedias

General
• Microsoft Encarta
• Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/

Specific digital encyclopedias
• Health Advice: WebMD http://www.webmd.com/

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_publishing

List of journals in sociology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journals_in_sociology

EJS

http://www.sociology.org/

Two divergent interests in ePublishing

Interest in Content

Content driven ePublishing

Shillingsburg, Peter L. 2007. From Gutenberg to Google. Cambridge UK: Cambridge.

Quick Money

Marketing driven ePublishing

Edward, Jim and Joe Vitale. 2007. How to WRITE and PUBLISH Your Own eBook in as Little as 7 DAYS. New York: Morgan James.

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