thinking

It's dangerous, I know. Wahaha. Been giving online publishing a lot of thought lately. After the meeting with the Philippine Federation of the Deaf and the Philippine Deaf Resource Center, I've been thinking about NGOs' lack of resources to publish. The norm is to publish research and data on hardcopy. The thing is, there are oftentimes problems regarding distribution and access. Not to mention the higher production cost of hardcopies. I was thinking of online publishing as a faster and more cost-effective way of getting what you need to say out there. It's always easier to find information online, just ask any college student doing research. Hardcopies may still be produced, but when time is of the essence, online publishing and distributing copies of data on CDs in my opinion, is the best way to go.

Found a bit of research supporting this:

Online or Invisible?
This article refers more to scientific data and journals.

OPA Press Release
This article is a release on how the web rivals television as a form of media, and works as an extension of all other types of media. Thing is, all this information is from the US. Well, we can always pick up something from here. Still, it would be great if we had information of this sort available regionally.

And some helpful links:
Desktop Publishing Info

Cooking up an evil plan. Stay tuned.