Blog as current phenomenon & benefits to the community
Current phenomenon of blogging
A look into the digital world today, blog is now the biggest online phenomenon as a mainstream media. People who blogs are called “bloggers”, and right now, there are thousands of blogs on the net. (Dvorak, 2002) Technorati reported that 100,000 new blogs is created every day and 1.3 million blog post written. (BBC, 2006)
Blogging has bloomed widely since the beginning of internet, across the world until here in Malaysia, where it has become a trend to have one today. The reason why people are using blog today is because of the easy access of any site that supplies free blog sites, as well as cheap to maintain, or some bloggers earn money by blogging with selling items or posting advertisements by companies and getting paid for it another is also expressing what they want without anyone stopping.
Benefits to the community
With blogging, it has been created a closer bond between people. For example, government with the public; Malaysia for example, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has a blog where he shares his ideas and interact with the people with feedback from them. Other parts of the world are doing the same as well, to gain public’s confidence and transparency in the government.
Malaysian media system is under the authoritarian theory, a blog is the best medium to express a person’s thoughts and feelings with no editors controlling. Even so, the public decides what they want to see at the end.
BBC, 2006, Blogging ‘set to peak next tear’, retrieved on 17 September 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6178611.stm
Dvorak, J.C, 2002, The Blog Phenomenon, retrieved on 17 September 2009, http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,12899,00.asp
Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, 1Malaysia, viewed on 17 September 2009, http://www.1malaysia.com.my/
Crosby. C, 2009, Technorati’s Stae of the Blogsosphere 2009, viewed on 17 September 2009, http://www.slaw.ca/2009/11/09/technoratis-state-of-the-blogosphere-2009/
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