.: Blogs As Current Phenomenon & Benefits To The Community :.

A blog is an online journal for a person to share or express their personal feelings, opinions, interests, moments and some uses blogs as a tool to earn a side income to promote their own businesses and etc... Nowadays, almost everyone life have a blog. It’s either one is a blogger or one refers to blogs. This has become a current phenomenon. Hence, technorati is known as a platform for its state of blogosphere reports, analysing the trends of blogs since year 2004.

In the picture below show the number of bloggers worldwide:

According to Technorati.com :

"The growth for mobile blogging has tremendously increased as a trend nowadays. Almost 25% of the blogger use mobile blogging with smart phone and most of the table count on to hit on a wider coverage. 40% of the report showed that blogger has adapted to a new type of blogging which is much abbreviate and more casual.”

Trends In Malaysia

The blogging trends in our country, Asia (Malaysia) tend to blog about food, politics, entertainment, technology and even personal blog. Malaysia is a country which is strictly controlled by government and information are bounded by rules. Nowadays, reader tend to turn on to blogs to look for information instead of just believe and observed everything in media reports.

For example, in Malaysia. Our most popular or influential bloggers is Kenny Sia. He blogs with passion and always fills up interesting pictures about his travels and his everyday life. Some people even pay him money to travel and blog about some specific places.

Another example of Malaysia famous political blogger named Jeff Ooi, which provides readers with information that media might has "Overlooked". Nevertheless, there are plenty of online food blogs and boutique blogs which are for business purposes use.

The Benefits

Nowadays, political blogs are very common and widespread in US and Iran meanwhile business blogs can be seen growing in Malaysia. In Iran, blogosphere provide reliable news source for them to protest for their own rights.

 In US, blog can be associate with online forum due to they shift into democratic society (Hughes. D 2009).In our county Malaysia, the rate of online shopping increase actively due to citizens goes to shopping just to pastime (Rajkumar.B 2010). To conclude, every blog has its benefits to the community. For example: Fifty most influential blogs in Malaysia, (Gaman, 2007).

Reference : 

1. Hughes, Dave. 2009. Blogging's global impact and the future of Blogging [online]. [Accessed on 28 August 2011]. Available from: http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-5-twitter-global-impact-and/page-2/
2. Best blog asia. 2011. Most Influential Bloggers in Malaysia [online]. [Accessed on 28 August 2011]. Available from: http://www.bestblogs.asia/influential-bloggers-malaysia.php
3.  Rajkumar TR, Bharath. 2010. State of online shopping in Malaysia and Singapore [online]. [Accessed on 28 August 2011]. Available from: http://www.articlesbase.com/ecommerce-articles/state-of-online-shopping-in-malaysia-and-singapore-1857921.html
4. Sobel, John. 2010. Technorati Media. State of Blogosphere 2010 Intruduction [online].[Accessed 28 August 2011]. Available from: http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2010-introduction)
5. Gaman. 2007. 50 Most Influential Blogs in Malaysia [online]. [Accessed 15 November 2011]. Available from:http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/