Blogosphere Phenomenon & Benefit to the Community

Source: Technorati

What is Blogging All About?
People are relying on the Internet to interact with others by using few media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, and YouTube. In today’s world, blogging is part of the most reliable media tools for those who are loves to express their feeling and voice out their thought of mind by making into writing because no one want is listening. According to the State Of The Blogosphere (2011), a total of 69% of Hobbyist mentions that personal satisfaction is the success of their blog. 

Source: julianhopkins.net

According to Julianhopkins (2010) on his article title ‘Which country blogs the most?’ Malaysia comes top fifteen in the world and the first in Asia. A recent statement on June 2010 by the Malaysian Information, Communication and Culture Minister - Datuk Seri Dr. Rais Yatim (Dewan Rakyat: 2 Million Bloggers Proof of Media Freedom in Country) affirmed that there are two million bloggers in Malaysia. Naughton (2006) mention that blogging is a keeping online practice and hundreds of thousand blogs are updated their blog everyday and its one of the most trusted online sources.

Trends in Malaysia

Source: Technorati

In Malaysia, an inspiring blogs, lifestyle and entertainments blog are more prevalent than others as mention by Dawe (2009). Blogs are proven to share their expertise and experience with the readers and widely used to generate side income as been mention in StateOfThe Blogosphere, 2011. 

Blogger in Malaysia
Our well known blogger is Kenny Sia and he blogs everything about his travel with lots of interesting pictures  and don’t be surprised because he got paid to travel just to blog on the particular places. On the other hand, we have Jeff Ooi, our famous political blogger and he feed other bloggers and the readers regarding our political issue that have been ignore by the media. 

Kenny Sia

Jeff Ooi

Due to the variety of blogs and many topic involves, most of the viewers are likely to be interested and following their blogs because they feel something after reading the selected blog. Thus it benefits the community due to different thoughts on certain topic. As we know, blogs is the platform to speak freely and also it shown that how important life with the internet we have.

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REFERENCES

• Anthroblogia 2010, 'How many Malaysian are they?', 28th June 2010, viewed 16th March 2012, <http://julianhopkins.net/index.php?/archives/293-How-many-Malaysian-blogs-are-there.html>
• Dawe 2009, 'Most Influential Bloggers in Malaysia', 28th  April, viewed 16th March 2012, <http://www.bestblogs.asia/influential-bloggers-malaysia.php>   
• Hopkins, J., & Thomas, N. (2011). Fielding Networked Marketing: Technology and Authenticity in the Monetization of Malaysian Blogs. In D. Araya, Y. Breindl, & T. J. Houghton (Eds.), Nexus: New Intersections in Internet Research. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
• Naughton, John 2006, ‘Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem', viewed 16th March 2012 <http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf>  
• Ooi, Jeff, Screenshots, 15th October 2009, viewed 16th March 2012, <http://www.jeffooi.com/>
• Sia, Kenny, Most Influential Bloggers in Malaysia, 13th April 2009, viewed 16th March 2012,  <http://www.kennysia.com/> 
• StateOfThe Blogosphere, 2011 'State of the Blogosphere 2011' viewed 16th March 2012, <http://technorati.com/social-media/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2011-part2/>