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/>.