A blog or weblog is a website where bloggers post their articles of varies subjects, ranged from serious socio-political issues to casual entries such as leisure and adventure. The size of blogosphere is still increasing although this media has already been introduced to the world for more than a decade. According to Technorati, a recognized authority that analysis the World Wide Web, there are over 175, 000 new blogs everyday and currently there are 112.8 million blogs in the Internet (technorati.com, 2008). From March 2003 to April 2006, the trend of blogging is doubling about every six months and the number continues to rise till today. In that three years time, the blogoshpere has enlarged for over 60 times.
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Blogosphere
Blogosphere is a virtual community where all bloggers are interconnected to one and another. Bloggers use tagging capability to get their content found by people who are searching for particular subject. They socialize among themselves by sharing their opinion on a particular topic or even just to discuss their common interest.
The Blogging Trend
A blog functions like a journal, or some may refer as online diary, publishing subjects which may be in the audiences or the bloggers’ own interest. The subject of blogging can be political, medical, and educational or topic about photo news, food recipes and reviews, humour, entertainment and art, travel guide, parenting and family, shopping fashion and many more. In brief, blog can be about anything and there is no rules and format which you must follow to create a blog. 'Depending on your take, blogs are either a fantastic liberation, a self-indulgent waste of time, or a complete mystery' (Giles Wilson, 2006). In other country such as Iran, 'blogs are used in various ways, from "bridges" which connect "social islands" between genders, expatriates and non-expatriates, children and their parents, even politicians and citizens. Persian expatriates in Israel tell their peers in Iran of their conditions and lives in Israel, for example' (wanabehuman blog, 2008). In China, 'there are some 111 million internet users in China, of whom about 64 million have broadband access, according to a China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) survey published in January 2006. Some 14.2 per cent of respondents said they used weblogs frequently. An Analysys International press release in November 2005 forecast some 33.36 million Chinese bloggers by the end of the third quarter of 2006, which would be more than double the 14.75 million bloggers counted by the end of 2004' (wanabehuman blog, 2008).
Blogging Tools
Blogs are increasingly recognised as a powerful and competent publishing tool (Jensen 2003). With the existence of user-friendly and free weblog software such as blogger.com, live journal, word press, it is no long a complicated process to create a blog. Millions of bloggers share ideas and experiences in their blogs and the audiences would respond to the subject that has been published, which makes a blog a powerful tool of communication and to spread information.
Effects to the Community
Imagine the impact it may bring to the society, the influence of the alliances that are formed in the virtual world. The public has becoming more and more dependent to blogs in obtaining information compared to a decade ago, where the only information sources are from the newspapers, televisions, radio and the other main stream media. In the recent Malaysian general election, blogs were used as tools to woo the voters by political parties. Blog of politician such as our formal Prime Mininster Anwar Ibrahim from the opposition party and blog of well-known Malaysian journalist Elizabeth Wong, are the references for the voters before they make up their decision for the election. Since the main stream media are only providing limited information to the public, the public were forced to search for alternative recourses to find out more. The government too now has accepted the reality that blogs can shape the public thinking of the country (The Star, 22 March 2008). The blogosphere is certainly growing through time, not only locally but globally ss well.
Source: http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000432.html
Blogosphere
Blogosphere is a virtual community where all bloggers are interconnected to one and another. Bloggers use tagging capability to get their content found by people who are searching for particular subject. They socialize among themselves by sharing their opinion on a particular topic or even just to discuss their common interest.
The Blogging Trend
A blog functions like a journal, or some may refer as online diary, publishing subjects which may be in the audiences or the bloggers’ own interest. The subject of blogging can be political, medical, and educational or topic about photo news, food recipes and reviews, humour, entertainment and art, travel guide, parenting and family, shopping fashion and many more. In brief, blog can be about anything and there is no rules and format which you must follow to create a blog. 'Depending on your take, blogs are either a fantastic liberation, a self-indulgent waste of time, or a complete mystery' (Giles Wilson, 2006). In other country such as Iran, 'blogs are used in various ways, from "bridges" which connect "social islands" between genders, expatriates and non-expatriates, children and their parents, even politicians and citizens. Persian expatriates in Israel tell their peers in Iran of their conditions and lives in Israel, for example' (wanabehuman blog, 2008). In China, 'there are some 111 million internet users in China, of whom about 64 million have broadband access, according to a China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) survey published in January 2006. Some 14.2 per cent of respondents said they used weblogs frequently. An Analysys International press release in November 2005 forecast some 33.36 million Chinese bloggers by the end of the third quarter of 2006, which would be more than double the 14.75 million bloggers counted by the end of 2004' (wanabehuman blog, 2008).
Blogging Tools
Blogs are increasingly recognised as a powerful and competent publishing tool (Jensen 2003). With the existence of user-friendly and free weblog software such as blogger.com, live journal, word press, it is no long a complicated process to create a blog. Millions of bloggers share ideas and experiences in their blogs and the audiences would respond to the subject that has been published, which makes a blog a powerful tool of communication and to spread information.
Effects to the Community
Imagine the impact it may bring to the society, the influence of the alliances that are formed in the virtual world. The public has becoming more and more dependent to blogs in obtaining information compared to a decade ago, where the only information sources are from the newspapers, televisions, radio and the other main stream media. In the recent Malaysian general election, blogs were used as tools to woo the voters by political parties. Blog of politician such as our formal Prime Mininster Anwar Ibrahim from the opposition party and blog of well-known Malaysian journalist Elizabeth Wong, are the references for the voters before they make up their decision for the election. Since the main stream media are only providing limited information to the public, the public were forced to search for alternative recourses to find out more. The government too now has accepted the reality that blogs can shape the public thinking of the country (The Star, 22 March 2008). The blogosphere is certainly growing through time, not only locally but globally ss well.
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