Blogging has become a phenomenon with people to build relations and interact with the internet users around the world. According to a Technorati (2006)report , 100,000 new blogs are created daily with 1.3 million posts. By the end of the year 2011 the number of bloggers is likely to increase in millions.
There are blogging trends which can be classified as ‘Political Blogging’, Social Blogging’ and ‘Economical blogging. Political blogging is focused on politics and economic blogging is for business activities. Blogging for personal affairs, entertainment social affairs are in the category of social blogging.
According to Microsoft (2006) nearly half of the internet users in Asia have a blog. Most of these blogs are social blogs to interact with family and friends. In Korea blogging is a part of everyday life and they spend around 3 hours daily on it. In the west it is the trend is slightly different. They blog a higher percentage for Technology and general purposes.
Blogging trends in UK
Effects on the Malaysian Community
Blogging has been beneficial to the Malaysian community. The Malaysian newspapers are often biased in their news towards the Governments as thenewspapers are State owned. The Malaysians rely heavily in their blogging to obtain the correct political news. Ex. Jeff Ooi. According to Sabahan.com (2006), 44% of Malaysian users to social blogging, 40 % for business purposes and 16 % for politics. This indicates that social blogging has become a trend as high as business blogging.
References
Blogging is bringing new voices to the online world, 2006, Pew Internet, Available at < http://www.pewinternet.org/Press-Releases/2006/Blogging-is-bring-new-voices-to-the-online-world-aspx >
Everyone’s reading it, Xiaxue.blogspot.com, Available at< http://xiaxue.blogspot.com
Media Paradigm Shift, 2009, The Guardian Media, Available at< http://www.Guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2057915,00.html >
Latest Blog Updates from Asia , 2011, Available at< http://www.bloggersinasia.com/ >
Druckman, V, Sobel, J, Martelli, D, Bourgeois, A, & Asher, J , 2010, State of the Blogosphere 2010, Available at< http://technorati.com/blogging/feature/state-of-the-blogosphere-2010 >
McLean, J, 2009, State of State of the Blogosphere 2009 Introduction, Technorati, Available at < http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2009-introduction/ >
Wong, A , 2009, Top 100 Malaysian Blogs, Available at < http:// www.riceblogger.com/top-100-malasian-blogs >
Solis, B, 2009, Rumours of the Death of Blogs are Greatly Exaggerated, Available at <http://www.briansolis.com/2009/11/rumors-of-the-death-of-blogs-are-greatly-exagerated/>
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