The Current Phenomenon of Blogging

Back in the days, many people writes about their daily lives, perspectives and thoughts in their ‘personal diaries’ to express themselves. However, in the world of today, ‘blogging’ has evicted those old school ways of people expressing themselves where now they actually expresses and shares their views from political and social aspects to reviewing their daily lives, with the rest of the people, or more specifically, to the entire world. Based on the figures shown on Technorati, the number of blogs tracked back in October 2004 amounted to 4 million while as of early 2009, the number has grew to +/- 200 million weblogs. Also, Pingdom.com as of the year 2009 reported that studies by BlogPulse found that the amounts of blogs are at 126 million.

Attached are figures that show the ever increasing number of blogs from year 2004 to 2007.

According to Garman (2007), his studies reviewed that 28% of Malaysia’s top 50 bloggers writes about their personal stuff, 16% on political views and 16% on technology. Based on these facts, it shows that blog readers are quite updated with Malaysian politics. The benefit that people can obtain from these blogs is that they can argue and discuss their different views on latest updates of politics, by using the chat box and comment boxes. Besides that, bloggers that provides hyperlinks will allow public to view the news they are reviewing about with only one click.

References:

Gaman 2007, ’50 Most Influential Blogs in Malaysia’, Sabahan.com, viewed 10 April 2010, http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/

Hopkins, L 2009, ‘Technorati and the size of the blogosphere: it can’t be THAT hard to figure out, surely?!’, Leehopkins, viewed 10 April 2010, http://www.leehopkins.net/2009/12/26/technorati-and-the-size-of-the-blogosphere-it-cant-be-that-hard-to-figure-out-surely/

Pingdom 2010, Internet 2009 in numbers, viewed 10 April 2010, http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/22/internet-2009-in-numbers/