Blogosphere current phenomenon & Benefits to the community

In October 2006, Technorati was tracking 1.3 million postings per day, about 15 posts per second and tracking over 70 million weblogs, (Sifry, D 2007). Surprisingly in 2008 report Technorati highlighted they are tracing 133 million blogs, almost double the size that was tracked in 2006.

“Blogs are online personal diaries managed by software packages that allow single-click Publishing”,( Sun, A, Suryanto, MA, Liu Y 2007,p. 307).

   

You can see some of the benefits of blogs from the above diagram.

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According to Technorati 2009 report, Self-expression and sharing expertise continue to be the primary motivations for bloggers. The rise of the professional blogger continues. Overall, bloggers are a highly educated and affluent group. The state of blogosphere in 2009 shows much on the growing of blogger’s influence from a wide variety of subject range, (Sussman,M 2009). Bloggers believe that politics and business are among the fields most impacted by the blogosphere.

                                    

Source:- http://technorati.com

This is considered due to blogosphere impact on 2008 US presidential election, current financial crisis and Iranis turning to the blogosphere to engage in commentary critical of the regime (protests of the presidential election in Iran). Overall people see blogosphere as a reliable news source than traditional media on these topics. 

Social media is the current trend in the Blogosphere.

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 Twitter and other social media represent one of the most important trends affecting the blogosphere in the year 2009, (Sussman.M, 2009). In Malaysia, political blogs are influential on the elections, opposition candidates benefit more by having a blog than non-opposition candidates, as blogging provides opportunities denied to them by Malaysia's state controlled media,(Gong. R, 2010).

Blogs has provided a plat form for advertising, educating readers on health issues, sharing important news and personal thoughts. Analyzing personal entries could provide opportunities for governments and companies to understand the public in a way that was previously costly or even unavailable,( Chau.et.all, 2009, p. 36).

  

According to Gaman (2007),  28% of Malaysian Top 50 bloggers write about personal stuff while 16% talk about politics and technology respectively. Some of the most popular blogs in Malaysia are, kennysia,  SapiensBryan,  Hemmy and Yasmin The Story Teller.

A popular Blog in Malaysia

Source: http://kays-entertainment.blogspot.com

References:

•   Chau, M,Lam, P , Shiu, B , Xu, J & Cao,  J , January/February 2009, ‘A blog Mining Framework, IEEE Computer Society’.

•   Gong, R 2010, ‘Internet politics and state media control: Candidate weblogs in Malaysia’, Communication Policy Research South, viewed 25 September 2010,< http://www.cprsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/drupal/Rachel%20Gong.pdf>.

•  Gaman, 6 February 2007, ‘50 Most Influential Blogs in Malaysia’, viewed 25 September 2010<    http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/>

• Sifry, D 2004, State of the Blogosphere, Technorati, viewed 28 September 2010, <http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000443.html>

•  Sussman, M 2009, State of blogosphere 2009 introduction, viewed on 27 September 2010,<http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2009-introduction/>.