Tuesday, May 6, 2008

What about Blogging Phenomenon?

The word “blogs” was evolve from the short form of “ web log” where it can be explained as the online journal or diaries where open to public that everyone can leave their comment as long as they have registered themselves to the blog sites (Pointblog 2005) .Nowadays, blogging has become one of the instruments that connect us with one another about what is happening around them and it has become a social activity in Asia besides hang out with friends .It has become a trend that 1.4 blogs created for every second of everyday (Technorati 2008). They currently track those 70 million blogs over the world. The numbers of blogs have been doubling every six months ( Technorati 2008). And did you know that 74% bloggers in Malaysia are the young people that are age below 25? and also 64%bloggers in Malaysia are women (Microsoft 2006). Therefore, it can be described that “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”.


Reference Lists:

Mircosoft 2006, Women Rule in Malaysia Blogosphere, Press News, Mircosoft, viewed 20 April 2008, <http://www.mircosoft.com/malaysia/press/archieve2006/linkpage4337.mspx>

Pointblog 2005, Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissident : What's a Blog?,Reporters Without Border, September 2005 , viewed 8 May 2008 ,< www.rsf.org >

Technorati 2008, Technorati Blog: Blogoshpere, media release, April 2007, viewed 8 May 2008, <http://technorati.com/weblog/blogosphere/>



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