What is blog?
In 1997, Jorn Barger is the first users and creator of weblogs. In 1998 there were just a handful of sites of the type that are now identified as weblogs (so named by Jorn Barger in December 1997) (Blood, 2000). For now, weblogs is becoming a diary for people to share about their daily life, a discussion station, or a market to create business.
What’s the size of current blogosphere?
Since 2004, Technorati is a website known generally to state out the rate, and analyzing the trend of Blogosphere every year. In that study shows that, the rate of the Blogosphere had growth every year.
According to Technorati 2009, based on the survey demonstrates shows, the growth of the rate in blogosphere is influencing the way information from business to goes well in communities. Every year, during the time of revolutions and elections were organized by blogs, the strongest and the highest rate of the Blogosphere, bloggers are blogging more than ever.
Technorati 2007 is tracking over 70 million weblogs, about 120,000 new weblogs being created worldwide each day and it has about 1.4 blogs created every second of every day.
As we all know, the size of the blogosphere will only increase in everyday, the chance to get down the rate are barely.
What’s the trend in eg. Europe, Asia & Malaysia?
There are so many different kind of social networking around us, for example: the most popular social networking which people like to log in in every time and every second - facebook, twitter and many others, because of this, it may affect the size of blogoshpere. Based on (Technorati 2009), the entire blogosphere, with a focus on professional bloggers that founded is:
• Professional blogging activities
• Brands in the blogosphere
• Monetization
• Twitter & micro-blogging
• Brands in the blogosphere
• Monetization
• Twitter & micro-blogging
What types of blogs are prevalent in certain countries?
According to Pew Internet, in UK, the majority of the bloggers like to describe about their life and experiences as their primary topic, but in the topics of politics and government are came in second. While in Malaysia, according to Press Microsoft Malaysia 2006 said that, entertainment and social connection is the reasons to make them blog, (63%) for entertainment, and 49% for a connection with their friend and family. In India, majority of online users reading blogs to stay informed about world events. The most they enjoy to read is about technology (Dikshit 2006).
What are the benefits of those prevalent blogs (as above) to the community, eg. benefits of political/ social blogs in Iranian or Malaysian context?
Why political and social blogs brings benefits to Malaysian? It’s giving us a chance to voice out our opinion and what citizen need to against the government with a simple speech and comment (human rights). Besides that, government can more understanding about human rights easily, so that, it is a win- win situation for us to create a blog.
References List
- Microsoft Press Malaysia, 2006,' Women Rule in Malaysian Blogosphere', viewed 28 September 2010
- Nevillehobson, 2006, 'Latest blog trends from Pew Internet', viewed 28 September 2010 http://www.nevillehobson.com/2006/07/19/latest-blog-trends-from-pew-internet/
- The Hindu, 2006, 'Interesting blogging trends in India revealed in new survey http://hindu.com/2006/11/28/stories/2006112800452200.htm
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