“Blog” is an abbreviated version of “weblog”. Basically the word “weblog” is a combination of “web” and “log”. It was first used by Jorn Barger in 1997 (Branum 2011). The blog users are increasing year by year with a large amount of increment with an amount of approximately 169millions blogs (Blogpulse 2011). This is mainly because of the technological changes in the last few years with the introduction of smartphones, tablets and netbooks.
The introduction of these new devices allows the bloggers to update their blog instantaneously to the worldwide audiences especially when there is crisis is happening and people are trawl the internet for the latest news and information. According to Technorati (2010), 25% of all bloggers are already engage in mobile blogging and 40% of bloggers who report blogging from their smartphone or tablet say that it has changed the way they blog, encouraging shorter and more spontaneous posts.
Besides, a research by Technorati (2010) shows that 40% of the consumers are agree with the bloggers’ view that said more people will be getting their news and entertainment from blogs in the next five years than from the traditional media and the consumers also think that the news from the mainstream media is losing its trustworthiness. In other words, people are starting to believe in the news or information from the blogs than the mainstream media such as newspaper, television news and so on.
There are four different types of bloggers which are Hobbyists, Part-Timers, Corporates and Self-Employeds (Technorati 2010). The Hobbyists remain the biggest group follow by Self-Employed, Part-Timer and Corporate bloggers based on a research that carried out by Technorati in 2010.
In Malaysia, there are few different categories of blogs such as personal, technology, humor, entertainment, automobile, food and so on and the top ranked blog in Malaysia is kennysia.com (Sabahan 2007).
Blogs that under the politic category are increasing and it is resulted from the restrictions to freedom of speech. The freedom of speech in Malaysia is being restricted because of the laws such as Sedition Law, Defamation Law, Freedom of Assembly and Law for Licensing of Newspaper were being imposed (Wu 2005). Among the few famous political bloggers are JeffOoi.com, Rocky’s Bru, Lim Kit Siang and Anwar Ibrahim (Sabahan 2007).
Reference List
Blogpulse Stats 2011, Blogpulse, viewed 22nd August 2011,
Branum 2011, The Blogging Phenomenon: An Overview and Theoretical Consideration, The Blogging phenomenon. An Overview and Theoritical Consideration, viewed 22nd August 2011,
Gaman, 2007, 50 Most Influential Blogs in Malaysia, viewed 22nd August 2011,
http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/
Sobel J, 2010, State of the Blogosphere 2010, Technorati, viewed 22nd August 2011,
Wu T,H 2005, Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: A Malaysian Case Study on Blogging Towards a Democratic Culture, Viewed 22nd August 2011,
http://www.bileta.ac.uk/Document%20Library/1/Let%20a%20Hundred%20Flowers%20Bloom%20-%20A%20Malaysian%20Case%20Study%20on%20Blogging%20Towards%20a%20Democractic%20Culture.pdf
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