The Purpose

Contexts are being present in different kind of ways. Purpose of the blog is to discuss on the issues that exist in the publication and design. My readers for the blog are for those who are interested in doing publications as well as to have a better understanding of the subject matters.

Blogs as Current Phenomenon & Benefits of Blogging to the Community

Blogs in the world now are being one of the most important domains. People are getting more and more aware of the use of blogging on the website. Blogs are basically a website similar to forum or social bookmarking site (Scocco 2008).

The size of the blogosphere is roughly about 31 million bloggers only in the United State in the latest update on July 2012 (Johnson 2012). It further illustrates that out of the 31 million bloggers, 43% of them use for wordpress, 35% normal blogger, 16% use for tumblr, typePad and posterous and the remaining 6% is using the blog for other purposes. ‘

According to NS(2008), in Asia included Malaysia, there are about 112.8 million blog being tracked and more than 250 million pieces of tagged social media, cited in Technorati (2008). He further state that there over 175 thousand new blogs appearing each day. This has proved that blogs are one of the most trending website among the people in the Asia.

There are many type of blogs such as corporate blogs, personal blogs, podcast, videos and more. However, in Malaysia, a personal blog and a corporate blog is prevalent. Not only in Malaysia, but these blogs are also prevalent in Europe as well as in the Asia.

In my opinion, a political blog is somehow beneficial to the Malaysian. This kind of blog will help the citizens in voicing up as a freedom/ free speech against the government. This is supported by Ramadass(2006), she stated that about 20% of the people in Malaysia voted on blogs which focused in the politic matters.

Reference

Johnson Z 2012, ‘State of the Blogging World in 2012’, blogworld.com, viewed 13 September 2012, <http://www.blogworld.com/2012/07/25/state-of-the-blogging-world-in-2012/>.

NS 2008, ‘Blogging Trends affecting Penang & Malaysia’, slideshare.net ,viewed 13 September 2012, <http://www.slideshare.net/myPajamanation/blogging-trends-affecting-penang-malaysia-presentation>.

Ramadass, V 2006, ‘Blogging phenomenon sweeps Asia’, 28 November, Lowyat.NET: Malaysia’s Tech Enthusiast Resource Community, viewed 13 September 2012, <http://www.lowyat.net/v2/latest/blogging-phenomenon-sweeps-asia.html>.

Scocco D 2008, ‘What is a Blog?’ dailyblogtips.com, viewed 13 September 2012,  <http://www.dailyblogtips.com/what-is-a-blog/>.  

Classification of Blogs & Opinion the Most Appropriate Classification Approach

Weblogging has becoming one of the places for people to have a freedom of speech. People all around the world tends to use the weblog to express themselves like publishing their personal updates. Not only that, company and businesses people has also use the weblog to have a better recognition and gain a better awareness among people.

In other words, there are actually several types of blogs on the website. According to Arends (2012), blog is one of the best ways to keep your friends and associates updated on the events in your life. Arend also came out with a list of sort of general type of blogs.

Personal blog which also the most commonly used is a blog that every individuals use it as a diary or a journal like posting one’s feeling and expressing them freely.

Cultural blog is a blog where people have a discussion on the arts, music, as well as to share their own culture views around.

Business blog is definitely help in promoting the type of businesses or discussing on the management also the updates on stock market and the economics.

There are also many other blogs like science blogs, moblog, educational blog, forum blog that the author further discussed on it.

In my point of view, Arends (2012) has just generally providing the type of blog and the used of the blogs without going more in-depth on it. On the other hand, Herzog (2011), discuss the importance of taxonomy blogs. He stated that it is important to have the attribute to a category and a tag. For example, in a blog, a category might be a media and the tags might be the blogging.

Reference

Arends T 2012, ‘Different Types of Blogs and the Many Facets of Blogging’, business2community.com, viewed 15 September 2012 <http://www.business2community.com/blogging/different-types-of-blogs-and-the-many-facets-of-blogging-0174473>.

Herzog A 2011, ‘Why Blog Taxonomies are Important’, ariherzog.com, viewed 15 September 2012 <http://ariherzog.com/why-blog-taxonomies-are-important/>.