Blogosphere is the ecosystem of interconnected communities of bloggers and readers at convergence of journalism and conversation. Technorati reported that there are over 70 million blogs in existence today, and there are 3 million new blogs created every month and over 120 thousand blogs are created every day and over 1.4 million new posts every day (Blog World 2009). According to the Star, Malaysia has about 500,000 active bloggers, ranking the country among the highest in the world after Indonesia and the Europe Union.
Report from Technorati 2008: Size of Blogosphere
The trend in Europe, Asia and Malaysia
The trends of blog are varying across the country. According to Techorati (2009), the most popular of blogging trends around the world are politics and business blogs. In malaysia, people goes more on social and politics blogs. Kennysia.com is the most popular social blog for Malaysian (Sabahan.com, 2007), and politics blogs most viewed by people is Jeffooi.com (Kurunabad.com,2010)
Report from Technorati 2009: Most popular field in Blogosphere
Types of blogs prevalent in certain countries
The prevalent blog can attract tremendous attention and exert great influence on society. Due to restraint of freedom of speech by government, in certain country such as Iran, political blog prevalently acts as powerful tools for journalists and activists engage in commentary critical of regime(Technorati 2009). Political blogs are prevalent in Malaysia as well.
The benefits of prevalent blogs to community
The benefits of those blogs prominence in political context were it served as a platform for bloggers to raise commentary argument and brought exert great influence to the community and have great potential through its power to create social cohension and elicit support. The political blogging was especially prominent during election, some famous examples include the 2008 US presidential elections: the win of the first African-American President Barack Obama (MSNBC, 2008) In Malaysia context, the 2008 General Election, the ruling party Barisan Nasional was dealt with its worst ever electoral result,(Malaysiakini.com 2008) both create a new dawn for the nation Politics control.
Reference List
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2. BlogWorld 2009, Important Blogging Statistics, viewed March 28 2010
http://www.blogworldexpo.com/general-information/important-statistics
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http://kurunabad.blogspot.com/2010/04/weblog-paling-popular-di-malaysia.html
5. Malaysiakini.com 2008, “BN denied 2/3rd majority, lost five states, Malaysiakini blocked”,9 March 2008, viewed 30 March 2010.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/79503
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27531033/
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http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-introduction/
8. Technorati Report 2009, viewed March 28 2010,
http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2009-introduction/
9. The Star 2008, "Blogging in Malaysia ranks among highest in the world" 3 April 2008, viewed 28 March 2010
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/4/3/nation/20827588&sec=nation
10. Sabahan.com 2007, “50 most influential blogs in Malaysia” 6 February 2007,viewed March 28 2010
http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/
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