Issue In Publication & Design: Blogs as a current phenomenon & benefits to the community

Current Phenomenon

Based on Technorati.com (2008), they are currently tracking 112.8 millions of blog all around the world. According to Technorati data, just only blogs has exceeded over 175,000 new blogs every single day. Everyday 1.6 million posts or over 18 update a second by the bloggers who update their blogs regularly.

Today in Malaysia, it becomes a trend to the Malaysian of using the blog as a way to express their opinion and feeling towards the country and also a medium for the political party to get the public attention. In Malaysia, Political blogs are scatter everywhere. Here is some of the famous political blogs in Malaysia:-

(Fig .1 some of the politicians blog)

As it was proven by the social sciences and social behaviour, that women are far better communicators than men. Surveys show that the blogosphere in Malaysia blogging community, 64% bloggers are to be women while men stand 36%. The majority of bloggers in Malaysia are below 25 years old and the rest are between 25 to 34 years old.

(Microsoft.com, 2006)

Another survey had done by (PRNewswire, 2006), it review that Asia’s blogosphere rising and falling as 46% of the online user are actively blogging. In Asia, Young people and women rule the blogging world except in India: as it is significantly belong to the male and whereby blogging become a part of daily life for the Korean.

(PRNewswire, 2006)

The society in European country, still doubt the usage of blog. For example, Britain has the lowest blog user as survey show that 30% of internet users do not what is blog and most sad is only 10% of the users would actually visit blogs account (Brook, 2006). In Britain, Majority trusted the quality national newspaper follow by news aggregator such as Yahoo and Google. Only 5 % trust the newspaper or individual blog.

(Brook, 2006)

Today blog have created a new era to the world and bringing beneficial to the public. Since the emergence of politician blogs in Malaysia, the people of Malaysia can easily express their feeling and through the politician blog, they could know what the Malaysia Government are doing behind the public, which we hardly seen or heard from the mainstream media as they control the whole media in Malaysia.

Other than that, blogs helps the people to keep up with their friends and family and for other blogs such as business and technological blogs, it help the Malaysian side by side with the latest technology or business update to increase the economic and technology in Malaysia. Artist and actress also use the benefit of blog for their own beneficial for doing free advertisement through blog to promote their latest product.

(Microsot, 2006)

Reference

About us 2008, Technorati.com, viewed 12 November 2008,

<http://technoratimedia.com/about/>

Microsoft.com 2008, Women Rule in Malaysian Blogosphere, viewed 12 November 2008,

<http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/press/archive2006/linkpage4337.mspx>

PRNewswire.com 2006,Blogging Phenomenon Sweep Asia, viewed 12 November 2008,

<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-28-2006/0004480819&EDATE=>

Brook, S 2006, Blogs struggle to impress in UK, Guardian, viewed 12 November 2008

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/jun/20/pressandpublishing.newmedia>