Online Media

Exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, signals, writing, or behaviors are the elements of communication which helps human animal to be a social man. Communication needs art and technique of using words effectively to instruct information or ideas. Transmission of information, such as advertising, broadcasting, mailing, letters, journalism, music, videos, articles etc involves in communication. For proper communication we are using different mass media channels like Radio, Television, Newspaper, telephone, cinema, libraries etc every day. Auditory means, such as speaking, singing and sometimes tone of voice are verbal communication which we directly gets from person or any technologies like Radio, Television, telephone etc. Even Nonverbal communications such as body language, sign language, paralanguage, touch, eye contact, or the use of writing are also found in Television, Newspaper, cinema etc.

Though we were using different mass media channels like Radio, Television, Newspaper, telephone, cinema, libraries etc every day people were not satisfied with it because Nonverbal communications cannot be seen in Auditory means like Radio, cassette players etc. Similarly, we cannot get audio, visual in Newspaper. If we have to revise past news then it is very durable in Newspapers, Televisions and Radio too. As we know, every problem has its solution, the above mention problem has been solved and that is Online Media. Online media is the easiest and the most suitable way to collect information. Online media in Nepal consists of e-newspapers, radio online, online videos, online magazines, online libraries, online maps etc. Online media is becoming a popular media source in Nepal and has gained popularity all over the world. Today, however, mass media has become much more than that, it has become a necessity in our daily lives. We are very much dependent on mass media not only as a source of news and information, but also as a source of entertainment and leisure. We are able to, not only update ourselves with news from around the world, but also watch the latest movie, listen to the latest music and songs and also reach out to the rest of the world through Internet. Consumers these days are simply turning away from books and newspapers and are spending more time on using media on internet. They seemed to like replacing traditional media such as letter writing with new media habits such as online social networking, blogging, texting and instant messaging etc. The content and design of a newspaper or magazine can no longer qualify as online journalism. The content of online journalism may content Headline, Text, Picture, Graphic, Related Links, Audio, Video, Slide Shows, interactive features, and Animation etc. And these all are found in websites for example, google.com, yahoo.com etc which is designed by web page makers.

What Does “Online Media” Mean?
Contents:
Podcasts, Webcasts, Streaming video, mp3, Blogs, Games
People want the same quality online that they experience at home for example some people they watch video in Widescreen but some are still watching in Black and White print. Some people listen song in mp3 format some wants to listen in wma format. So, in Online Media, Media files can be very large of small. Similarly, some wants media files in High and Better quality but some are still satisfied with normal quality. Similarly, some wants more information and large files but some wants compressed data. Due to these kinds of variation quality can be affected. Online Media uses a Players, Reader, etc and it takes a minute or more time to install for example: Windows Media, QuickTime, Flash, Apple iTunes, Acrobat Reader, etc.
Downloading
We can find more than millions and billions of Media file in different websites. Some are downloadable and some are denied to download. This Media file can be view at any time and places. Downloadable file can be downloaded at any time any places. Some Media files are only be viewable many times but not downloadable. Some files are files are viewable only after it is downloaded in computer.
Advantages of Downloading:
We can play the media anytime you want.
Media files may be sent as attachments with an email.
We need not to carry the data every time.
Sitting in one place we can get what you want.

Disadvantages:
Media files can be very large.
It can take a long time to download, even with a broadband.
It cannot be watched or listened to until it has completely finished downloading
It can limit the impact of using a media file to communicate something.

Webcasting
Media file is never downloaded to the computer.
It is stored on the website, or a special computer called a media server.
It is dependent to the time, Live or scheduled.
Radio station casts their programs on the internet.
Webcasts can use special website software, a standard media player or a custom media player.
Advantages:
Audience can see a media program or event as it happens.
Webcast can be converted to a downloaded or streaming file for viewing later.
Disadvantages:
Quality depends on a high bandwidth connection.
Online Media Examples:
YouTube
Free video sharing site.
Converts file to a streaming format.
Access of Uploading to the YouTube site is possible.
File can be public or private.
Standard length is 10 minutes.
Longer/larger files can be uploaded for an additional fee.
File can be both audio and video.
Like radio or TV shows
Can “subscribe” to the show and get a notice that a new show is available.
Latest show is automatically downloadable to our iPod (using iTunes) or other mp3 media player.
People can leave comments about it.

Nepali Online Media:
www.nepalnews.com
Type: News portal.
Main Feature: First to publish almost any breaking news in Nepal. News is otherwise updated regularly several times a day, often with photos.
Other features: Audio, video and photos. Weather and currency exchange rates updated daily. It is linked to all daily, weekly, fortnightly and monthly news publications. It also offers several Nepali fonts for download.
Drawbacks: Many of the features clustered by small box advertisements on either side of the page. Poor design by comparison to other online news portals. The presentation as a whole could improve.
Site created by: Mercantile Communications Pvt. Ltd.

www.cybernepal.com.np
Type: Entertainment portal.
Main Feature: Models.
Other Features: eCards, Mp3s, music videos, artist profiles and wallpapers. Links to various websites they are affiliated to in the areas of entertainment and online portals of other interests, including afterslc.com.np and missnepal.com.np.
Site created by: Dreams and Ideas
Note: Cybernepal.com.np has contributed a great deal towards the progress of web development and graphics in Nepal. The website is perhaps one of the first to achieve this level of branding/ popularity not just amongst web surfers but also the web site designing market in Nepal.

Advantage of Online Media:
News on holiday trading times, sales, discontinued or new lines can be published online,
Reducing the number of brochures that your company needs to produce,
Providing answers to frequently asked questions thus saving staff time,
Providing a timesaving shopping experience for customers,
Accessing information about customer buying patterns and purchases thus providing further marketing opportunities,
Automated collection of orders, payments and customer details,
An online database of products which is quick, easy and inexpensive to modify,
Improved communication by email which is professional and convenient, and is significantly better than leaving messages on answering machines,
The needed information, videos, music or any data can be downloaded at any time etc.
History of online Journalism:
October 1993: The University of Florida’s journalism school launched the first journalism site on the World Wide Web.
Craig Lee - webadmin@jou.ufl.edu David Carlson - gigabit@ufl.edu
It often was available only nights and weekends, the only times the machine was not needed for other tasks.
Nov 1994: The daily telegraph goes online. Electronic Telegraph is launched as UK’s first newspaper website.
Jan 1994: Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.
15th Sep: 1997: The domain google.com was registered.
Dec 1997: BBC Online starts as a full service. In less than one year it offers more than 140,000 pages of content and 61,000 pages of news.
In 1999: The Guardian Unlimited network of websites is launched and by 2001 it has 2.4 million unique users making it the most popular newspaper site in the UK.
Sep 1999: The website journalism.co.uk, providing news and useful links to journalists, is launched.
Feb 2000: Multimedia online news started, Associated Press launches AP Streaming News to give news sites and broadcasters multimedia content.
9th March 2000: Nupedia.com founded, Nupedia.com, an online dictionary anyone with an account can edit and predecessor of Wikipedia, is founded and Renamed to Wikipedia on 15th January, 2001.
Aug 2000: The Hampshire Chronicle becomes the first British Newspaper to publish in an e-book format.
Aug 2003: Interactive Narratives is launched by professor of journalism at San Francisco State University. The site is a portal for the best interactive journalism on the internet.
Jul 2004: Microsoft launches a trial news aggregator service called Newsbot using a database of around 4,800 news sources.
In 2005: Google Earth was launched which displays satellite images of varying resolution of the Earth's surface, allowing users to visually see things like cities and houses looking perpendicularly down.
Online Media in Nepal
Compared to given websites, it was very soon that first Nepali e-magazine ‘The Nepal Digest’ was launched in 1993, only a year after Chicago Tribune could be read in online version at the first time in world’s online history. Kathmandu Post was posted in online version on 1st September 1995 at the first time. Kathmandu Post went on the web on September 1, 1995 is the first newspaper to avail its content into the web. In the beginning, its content was available at http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~rshresth/ktmpost/. In Nepal, Himal Southasian was first magazine to have its own domain in the web. It went on the web through www.himalmag.com in 1997. This website has been availing the archive of the magazine since March 1996. Nepal news, started since November 1999, under domain www.nepalnews.com, is the first independent online that doesn’t publish in hard copy or doesn’t have any corresponding broadcast media.
According to the Nepal Journals Online, there are 36 journal listed. Until 2000 B.S There is less number of Nepali website. In 2003 there were 677 Nepali websites listed in nepalnet.net which provides online services.

How did blogging become a phenomenon?
In the first information revolution in the 1990s, everyone started creating websites just to have one. The advent of blogs has paved the way for a more authentic information revolution. The internet of the 1990s was said to allow anyone to become a publisher. But anyone needed to know a little bit about computers and specifically, how to build a web page.
Lots of flashy web sites were built, but once you visited them, there often was little reason to return.
Blogs flipped this model on its head. They’re not always pretty to look at, but they can e published by anyone who can click a mouse and type.
The software makes it so easy to publish, in fact, that blogs can be updated several times a day with about the same effort as sending e-mail.
Example of popular blog tools are blogger.com, lovejournal.com, wordpress.com.

Current state of websites:
There are many people who can create website in Nepal. A person can make website staying at home and earn money. The development of websites is not limited to Kathmandu valley only. Even in the hilly districts, online news portals have been launched. Some Nepali news portals have been launched from abroad. Though, these sites seem to have launched from abroad as their names suggested, maximum portion of the site are uploaded from Kathmandu. There are also many websites which are not running or updating. So we do not have exact record how many online news media exist in our country. According to the nepalresearch.com and nepalmonitor.com in 5th may, 2009 some best online media websites are listed below:

News providing web sites and services:
Nepal News, Ekantipur, Gorkhapatra Online, República, Weekly Nepal, Khabar Nepal, Reporters Nepal, Nepal Monitor, Himal Khabar, Nepal Human Rights News, Nepal Press Freedom, Legal News from Nepal, Nepal News US, Nepali Post, Nepaljapan.com, Free Nepal News Network, Weather Service Nepal, Forex.

Radio/TV news and services:
BFBS Gurkha Radio, Nepal Television, Avenues TV, Channel Nepal, Kantipur TV, Nepal 1, ABC Channel, Image channel, Sagarmatha TV, Radio Nepal, Nepaliko Radio 88.8 MHz, Radio Lumbini, Image 97.9 FM, Radio Aawaz, Hits FM, Nepali Tube, Kantipur FM 96.1, BBC Nepali Programme, Radio Sagarmatha 102.4, CFFN Radio, Radio Dovaan, Himali Swarharu, WNSO Radio live, Classic FM, Kalika FM, HBC FM, Radio City FM, Radio Annapurna.
Papers and magazines:
The Kathmandu Post, Kantipur, The Himalayan Times, Annapurna Post, The Rising Nepal, Gorkhapatra, República, Nagarik, Nepal Samacharpatra, Naya Patrika, Mahanagar, Rajdhani, Janadisha, Butwal Today, Sandhya Times, Newsfront, Sanghu, Tarun, Nayan Bikalpa, Nayan Prakash, Jana Ekta, South Asia Intelligence Review, Dristi, Janadesh, Nepali Sandesh, Europe ko NepaliPatra, The Telegraph, Budhabar, Ghatana ra Bichar, Hank, Kantipur Qatar, Janadharana, Suryodaya, Roadmap, The People's Review, Spotlight, Nepali Times, Madheshvani, Arpan, Nepali Patra, Sambodhan, Saptahik, Janasatta, Tasapaw, Deshprem, Kathmandu Metro, Deshantar, Nepal Abroad, Dishanirdesh, Chalphal, Suchanapatra, Khabardar, ECS (Expatriate Community Services), Himal Khabarpatrika, Himal Southasian, The Red Star, Madhuparka, Muna, Nari, New Business Age, Yubamanch, The Boss, Nepal Traveller, Wave Magazine, Cybernepal, Global Nepali, Himal, Himal Southasian, Himalayan Journal of Sciences, Kailash, Journal of Bhutan Studies, Journal of the Tibet Society
Liberal Democracy, Midweek, Mother Tongue Pipal Pustak, Nation, Nepali Times, Peace and Democracy in South Asia, Regmi Research Series, Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS), Himalayan Research Bulletin.
Blogs: Blogger Nepal, Blogdai, Bahas, Deepak's Diary, Democracy for Nepal, Nepali Perspectives, Nepali Voices, Samudaya, Nepali Notebook, WeBlog Nepal, INSN, United We Blog, Phalano, Hamro Blog, Global Voices etc.

Now in Nepal, there are many popular websites which are competing with each other to provide necessary services to the user. Some popular website is listed below.

Popular Nepali news portals
The Nepal Digest: Launched by TND foundation (registered in New York USA) in 1993 is considered pioneer e-Nepali magazine. The Nepal Digest helps to create a free and democratic electronic platform-free of all political views, free of cultural biasness, against prejudices and unjustness of all kinds. (Thenepaldigest.com)
www.nepalnews.com: Run by mercantile communication, is the first independent news portal from Nepal. News is updated regularly several times a day, often with photos and publishes almost any breaking news of Nepal.



Problems in Nepal
At present, several publications can be read in internet and several independent online News portals are also in existence in a significant number through the country. Coinciding to the rise on computer literacy rate, there is significant number of browsers who visit web sites in the country. But this large number of people is from city area. Still, access of internet is very limited in the country. Browsing news sites for information instead of hard copy, for common Nepali people is still a dream. Now a day online news portal is rapid growing in the capital and outside Kathmandu too. But many journalists are not update with the new technologies and have not got opportunities of training and basic of computer.

Hypothesis
In our country, many website are launched and left as it is. Even years passed they do not able to update it. It is due to the crisis of financial, human resources and technologies. There is less number of websites which is updating its items daily. There are many Nepali website which are not up-to-date. There are many news portals which do not have human resource and network for news. The journalists are working in lower salary and facilities. Beside these Nepali websites are not attractive and informative than in compare to websites of other countries.

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Nepal Monitor, (13th June, 2009), http://www.nepalmonitor.com/media.html
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Nepal Research, (13th June, 2009) from http://www.nepalresearch.com/news.htm
Omar Samy, Online Journalism, 2008, http://www.scribd.com/doc/8319913/Online-Journalism
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A Film By: Rashmi Agrawal

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A film by: Rashmi Agrawal
With: Nabila Banu, Riju Shrestha
Also Appearing: Anish Regmi, Elish Shrestha, Ramita Maharjan, Rubin Manandhar, Sauel chhetri
Cinematography: Samuel Chhetri, Sunir Pandy
Audio/ Video Editor: Rubin Manandhar
With co-operation of Chandi Raj Dahal

This Video was shooted on June 10, 2009 (Mero Birthday ko din)
Location: Rashmi's home and Banepal Fast Food(KU)
Through: Sony Digital CAM

Honor to Hari Manjushree

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. In the celebration of the New Year of 2066, a book exhibition was launched in order to honor Hari Manjushree. The program was organized by The Red Cross society of Dhulikhel and Vice Chancellor of Kathmandu University's Dr Suresh Raj Sharma was the chief guest of the ceremony. In the program,many other literary figures like Mohan Duwal, T.P Sharma, Narendra Raj Jung etc openly and heartily praised Hari Manjushree for his great contribution in Nepali literature. The Chief Guest of the ceremony Dr Suresh Raj Sharma gave certificate to Hari Manjushree and also praised Hari Manjushree for his memorable works in literary field of Nepal. Manjushree was born in Bhojpur and came to Kavre. His economic condition was not good but also he has contributed in Kavre. He wrote many books, paintings etc and earned name but not money. Even he is living in a house which is built by his friends. He has got several honour like 'Kulchandra Khorila Smriti Pratisthan', 'Roshi literature patra', 'saptahik madhammarga sadhana samman', 'Sunkoshi shahetyea pratisthan samman patra', 'Muktimarga darshan puruskar' e.t.c. He had also made many contributions for the development of Nepali literature by creating different interesting poems, paintings, novels and also introducing a simple attractive Nepali Grammatical rules. He has also been a journalist and has worked in many media organizations.

Madan Pustakalaya

Madan Pustakalaya is one of the oldest, popular and first libraries of Nepal which was established in 1956. This library contain of both old and new books and periodicals in the Nepali language. Madan Mani Dixit, chairman of the library established library in order to conserve all types of books materials and informative materials. There are altogether 26,854 books, 5,125 newspapers, 7000 digitized photo, 35000 wall paintings, 500 hand written and 700 audio-video records. So, they are using microfilm and digital technology. According to the members of the library, the first Nepali book to be printed was Holy Bible in 1820. Nepali paper are use to preserve a 100 years back photo of Rana Prime Minister Junga Bahadur Rana and different painting and arts. Similarly, first issue of Gorkhapatra is also saved. Interesting part of this library is that, they use different technologies, chemicals, storage media, paper etc to save the ancient treasures which are very important for future.