Blogging Phenomena and Benefits to the Community

The blogoshpere has made up all blogs connected to each others as a social network, which the blogger can read, write and comment on them. Blogoshpere is the realm of the Internet blogs and to people to read and write them.

Figure 1: Weblogs cumulative from March 2003-March 2007

(Source: Technorati)

According to Sifry (figure 1), Technorati is tracking over 70 million weblogs, and in worldwide about 120,000 blogs was created each day.

Mobile blogging was the trend on 2010 based on Technorati's report. There is 25% of all bloggers are already using their mobile phone as a tool for blogging. Bloggers that reported Smartphone is a device that changes the way they blog is about 40% of them, they can even blog more fast by just few tap or few click. This shows that more websites customized for mobile platform. It would have social media application that integrates with the blog.

TheStar newspaper (2008) reported that the most highest active bloggers in the world was Malaysia, then the next country was Indonesia and the European Union. Also, Dr Abu Hassan Hasbullah (2008) from University Malaya saying that even nowadays 70% of the election results were influenced by blogs.

Moreover, the types of blog are prevalent in malaysia are about writing personal stuff (28%),
politics (16%) and technology (16%). Blog can be powerful tools that can influence people especially social blog or political blog. According to Gaman (2008), kennysia.com was ranked top 1 as most popular blogger in Malaysia. He is a full time blogger, who spend most of his time writing a blog. There are always have positive and negative feedbacks from the readers, and it helps the community to have different point of view.

The prevalent blog can bring benefits to the community because it can voice out their own opinion and share their point of view to the community. Blog can be part of the news, if the source has citation or credibility from the original author. It can bring latest information to the community and also interactive comment with the readers.

References:

Sifry, D.,2007. The State of the Live Web. [online] Available at: <http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html>[Accessed 24th August 2011]

Sobel, J. State of the Blogosphere 2010 Introduction. [online] Available at: <http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2010-introduction/>[Accessed 24th August 2011]

Anon., Blogging in Malaysia ranks among highest in the world. The Star Online,[online] Available at: < http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/4/3/nation/20827588&sec=nation> [Accessed 24th August 2011]

Gaman. 2007. 50 most Influential blogs in Malaysia. [online]. (Updated 6 February 2007) Available at: <http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/>[Accessed 24th August 2011]