The size blogosphere has been increasing tremendously from one year to another. Technorati’s (2010) findings in 2006 tracked 50million weblogs and also revealed that blogging activity is doubling in size every 200days and about 175,000 new weblogs were created everyday in the last three years. In addition, Pingdom.com (2010) recently published that there are over 126million of blogs in the internet.
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and et cetera are known as micro-blogging site. It has been formerly used as a way to stay connected with friends/family now has expanded its importance for businesses for marketing such as branding and advertising as well (McGiboney 2009).
Malaysia has about 500,000 active bloggers, ranking the country among the highest in the world after Indonesia and the European Union, Utusan Malaysia reported (The Star, 2008). In Malaysia, blogs are often used politically, serving as the 'alternative voices' such as MalaysiaKini blog and the famous political blog by Jeff Ooi. The blog has become an effective tool for journalists as well as the activists (Sussman, 2010).
According to Universiti Malaya media department lecturer, Dr Abu Hassan Hasbullah, blogs has the power in influencing the thinking of people in Malaysia especially about politics (The Star, 2008). In the US, the overall growth in blog readership is attributable to political blogs (Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2005). Similarly in the Iran, political blogs is the trend where according to Nasrin Alavi (2005) blogs were created in Iran for freedom of speech and to protest against their government despite the strict state censorship on political internet sites.
References:
The Star, 2008. Blogging in Malaysia ranks among highest in the world. Viewed on 27 April 2011,<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.aspfile=/2008/4/3/nation/20827588&sec=nation>.
McGiboney, M 2009, Twitter’s tweet smell of success, viewed on 27 April 2011, <http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/twitters-tweet-smell-of-success/>.
Sussman, M 2010, Day 1: Who are the bloggers? SOTB 2009, Technorati, October 19, viewed on 25 April 2011, <http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-1-who-are-the-bloggers1/>
Technorati, 2010, State of blogosphere, viewed 24 April 2011, <http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000436.html>
Nasrin Alavi, 2005, We Are Iran, viewed on 25 April 2011, <http://bloggersenzafrontiere.blogosfere.it/files/WeAreIran_SampleChapterLo.pdf>
Pigdom.com, 2010, Internet 2009 in numbers, viewed on 25 April 2011, <http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/22/internet-2009-in-numbers/>
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