Sunday, August 21, 2011

Blog as current phenomenon and benefits of blogging to the community



blog that we commonly read

In the advance technology era, blogging is very common towards internet user. Lately, it has became a trend towards the community and also towards internet users all around the world. Blog has become an integral part of online culture ( Chapman, 2011). Undeniable, out of 10 internet users, with a brief assumption, 8 of them do have the habit of reading blog.Here is some brief history of blogging, do click and visit. According to the most current phenomenon, from my research, i found that this article from Technorati, "blogosphere of 2010" has the most current phenomenon of blogging. By summarizing the article, i would like to focus on this 2 main subject that make an big impact towards the society. As the blogosphere converges with social media, sharing of blog posts is increasingly done through social networks( Sobel, 2010 ). From the statement that I quoted, it is clearly shown that the current blogosphere is getting wider and bigger than previous; as social network became part of everyone's life.

With the current blogosphere, in Malaysia, the trend of blog's that people read are more about daily lifestyle (entertainment, fashion, food, daily rant etc. ) and also politic blogs.


A few blog that written by Malaysian blogger

From the blog above, society can have alternative way to access the information from daily life to politics. If you read from the blog above, basically you will realized that they are actually shared their personal life or opinion towards the public. Nevertheless, in America, blogs are very common, but the most prevalent among all kind of blogs are political blogs. For example, http://www.americablog.com/, it brings a lot of benefits to the country and society, reveal the truth of politics in the country and also a place where people can express and voice out their opinion. Nevertheless, most of the youngster do intervene themselves in the cyber world, by writing political views, it can actually encourage more "Y" generation to involve themselves in politics.

Technorati 2010, State of Blogosphere 2010, viewed 22 August 2010.

Chapman, C. 2o1o, A Brief History of Blogging, viewed 22 August 2010.<http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2011/03/a-brief-history-of-blogging/>

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