Current Phenomenon: Blog! Is it our new world? Why it benefits you?

Nowadays, everyone used to have blog in net network. It shows that blog become the most popular site in society. Blog is a template for bloggers to write down opinions and comments, to practice writing, to make money, to share hobby which followed by other materials attached such as pictures and videos that publicly showed (Julian, 2008).

Moreover, research done by BlogWorld (2010) stated that more than 120 thousand blogs created every day, over 57 million American are reading blogs, and 22 of the most website in the world are blogs. Also, most importantly, blog is predicted to be very essential thing that people must have in the next five years.

Then, since trend is changing from time to time as same as bloggers community shifted from college degree, hobbyist, and family bloggers to professional bloggers at 2009 (Technoriti, 2009).

Furthermore, ‘Blogging fever’ has happened in Malaysia too, it showed by statistic of 28% of the Malaysian Top 50 Bloggers write about personal stuff, 16% write about politics and 16% write about technology (Thristhan, 2010).

Also, blogger community becomes bigger from time to time. At 2003, 380,657 blogs are appeared in English, 54,496 blogs in Portuguese, 42,677 blogs in Polish, and 27,002 blogs in Farsi (Arnold, B, 2008). It shows that many people around the world start to have blog on their preferences language which mean that blog has gone through enormous growth in size.

Through blogging, bloggers will be able to share information they have through out the world. It is not only for personal stuff only, but load of business, advertising and politics issues written through blogs today. It driven changing in culture as well as people will more open toward issue discussed and feel free to share their opinions, comments and even critics.

References:

Arnold, B 2008, Blog statistic and demographics, viewed 16 April 2010, http://www.caslon.com.au/weblogprofile1.htm

BlogWorld2010, Important Blogging Statistic, viewed 15 April 2010, http://www.blogworldexpo.com/general-information/important-statistics

Julian 2008, Anthroblogology - Monetisation in the Malaysian Blogosphere, viewed 12 April 2010, http://julianhopkins.net/index.php?/archives/84-Anthroblogology-Monetisation-in-the-Malaysian-Blogosphere.html

Technorati 2009, State of Blogosphere 2009, viewed 12 April 2010, http://technorati.com/blogging/feature/state-of-the-blogosphere-2009/

Thristhan 2010, Top Bloggers in Malaysia, viewed 15 April 2010, http://www.thristhan.com/top-bloggers-in-malaysia/