Blogs as current phenomenon & Benefits to the community

  First and foremost what is blogosphere? According to wiseGEEK 2003, it is often used to describe million interconnected blogs on in the Internet.  On 2007, Technorati have already tracked 70 million weblogs with an estimation of 120, 000 new weblogs created all around the world daily. This means about 1.4 blogs are created every second everyday (Sifry, 2007).

  The graph below shows the amount of blogs tracked by Technorati from March 2003 to March 2007. 

Image source:  www.sifry.com

  Based on the survey, about 12% of worldwide bloggers comes from Asia Pacific (APAC)

Image source: www.technorati.com

  The trend today is mobile blogging through smartphones, which is expected to grow very much larger.  About 40 % of bloggers, have concluded that mobile blogging have changed the way of blogging by encouraging shorter and spontaneous posts. (Technorati, 2010)

  Blogs are dominant source of infomation. In Malaysia blogs has been used to influence readers by spreading news and information. According to Nadzri.A, Selamat.A, Selamat.H & Rozan.M n.d, during Malaysia’s budget 2009, bloggers played an important role to publish their opinions, rumors and information about Malaysia budget 2009 in their own blog through cyberspace.

  In Iran, blogs are news sources whereby it reports latest headlines and current affairs about Iran. For example Iran News Blog.

  Blogs have been a vital source of information that is useful to the community. As the increase rate of blogs created, people would have instant access to latest happening in one click. 

Reference

• Sifry, D 2007, ‘The State of the Live Web, April 2007’. [online] Available at <http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html> [Accessed 21 April 2011]

• Sobel, J., 2010, 'State of the Blogosphere 2010 Introduction'. [online] Available at <http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2010-introduction/> [Accessed 21 April 2011]

• wiseGEEK, 2003-2011, 'What is the Blogosphere?'. [online] Available at <http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-blogosphere.htm> [Accessed 21 April 2011]

• Mostofi, A., 2005, 'Iran News Blog'. [blog] March 2011, Available at <http://irannewsblog.blogspot.com/> [Accessed 21 April 2011]

• Nadzri, A., Selamat, A., Selamat, H. & Rozan, M., n.d, 'The dominant of bloggers in Malaysian Politics through Social Networks'. [online] Available at <http://www.shibaura-it.ac.jp/foreign_students/pdf/seatuc_3rd/04_info_04.pdf> [Accessed 21 April 2011]

Maheswari Ganga Gangaya

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