Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Blogs as current phenomenon & benefits to the community

Blogging gives you the power to connect, change, communicate, relate, inform, learn, grow, share, explore, nurture, help, transform and earn, across the globe, all at the touch of a keypad. Blog simple a website that allows you to upload a stream of information through text, audio and video, but it is how to blog and why that makes the differences. (Whyyoumustblog.com)

The blogging phenomenon has great potential through its power to create social cohesion and to elicit support for members of a community. Blogs are personal platforms where individual broadcast their perspectives on current events, the media, our culture and anything else that strikes their raw material available over the web based on the personal interests. (James. M Branum 2001)

Says David Sirfy, for nearly four years, we have been tracking and enabling the growth of this phenomenon and theirs is much in our data to indicate that the medium is “growing up.” There are too large of amount of people blogging where could not even make a count on that. That is why there are no reports shown of the number of blogger 2007.
Another great benefit of blogging is that posts can also be used as a free advertising vehicle. (David Fisherman) This is what happening in Malaysia where blog is a free advertising vehicle, and recent years has been encounter many fashion blog can be found. If you have something you are trying to promote on a limited budget, what better way to achieve this than to write a post others can instantly read and does not cost the marketer a single penny

On the other hand, politicians nowadayds in Malaysia are blogging as well (figure 1)such as the Prime Minister Najib, DAP Chairman Lim Kit Siang, ex-Prime Minister Dr.Mahathir Mohamad and so on. As mentioned blog is an online diary, the leaders whose carry high reputation will definitely bring an impact to society as well!image source: http://malaysiadigest.blogspot.com/2008/04/list-of-malaysia-politicians-blog.html

However, the state of the blog is strong, and is maturing as an influential and important part of the web and social networking. It has been building up for many years and it does really work to the community as well.

References:

Blogherald.com, 2011, The Blog Herald, How many blogs are there is someone still counting, viewed 21 April 2011, http://www.blogherald.com/2008/02/11/how-many-blogs-are-there-is-someone-still-counting/

David Fisherman, n.d., Ezine @rticles, Why Do People Use Blogs, viewed 21 April 2011,
http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-Do-People-Use-Blogs&id=332394

James.M, 2001, JMBzine.com, The blogging Phenomenon, viewed 21 April 2011, http://www.ajy.net/jmb/blogphenomenon.htm

Whyyoumustblog, n.d., How to blog and why, viewed 21 April 2011, http://www.whyyoumustblog.com

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