Blog is a kind of medium that used by online communities to share or to publicize their ideas, opinions, thoughts, minds, articles etc. Most of the blog is base on journal style and it is quite easy to get started. "A blog is a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption." (TechTarget, 2009). Blogger can upload his journal every day. At the same time, he also can post some pictures, music or videos to make his blog looks more attractive to boost his popularity. According to Technorati (2009), people who create their blog as a hobby occupied 72% of 2,828 bloggers, 15% as part-timers, 4% as corporate and 9% as self-employeds. There are many talent bloggers in Malaysia so weblog is also popular in Malaysia.
United State of America does have the greatest number of blogger in their country. The pie chart below indicates that US occupied 48% of the worldwide number of blogger:
There are many benefits of prevalent blogs to the Malaysia community. People can shop without going out because blog shop is popular in this country. Besides that, blogger can voice out their dissatisfactions, complains, or spread the awareness through weblog because weblog is a highly reachable medium in our country. Political and country issues are often discuss in blog by leaving comments in the blog post.
Reference List
- Technorati 2009, State of the blogosphere 2009 introduction, Technorati state of the blogosphere, viewed 15th April 2010, <http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2009-introduction>
- Technorati 2009, Day 1: Who are the bloggers?, Technorati State of the blogosphere, viewed 15th April 2010, <http://static.technorati.com/09/10/16/135/bloggers-worldwide-606x157.png>
- TechTarget 2009, Blog, viewed 15th April 2010, <http://searchwindevelopment.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid8_gci214616,00.html>
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