Blogosphere Phenomenon and Benefit

Through this 21st virtually connected century, the use of blogging has multiply liked an epidemic virus throughout the world.  The blogosphere is a community where all the blogs can be found and read. According to Technorati (2011), bloggers today are specifically having different needs whereby some derive their income from blogging or most do it to express their thoughts. Thus, they are classified into entrepreneurs, corporate, professional-full times and part-timers and hobbyists.  

As stated by Naughton (n.d) "Technorati, blog-tracking service was claiming to be monitoring 56.9 million blogs and new blogs were being created at a rate approaching two per second". The community was always thoughtful and well informed and there were no entry for them to share their thoughts until the blogging software and the internet came in hand which gave them the platform they needed (Naughton, n.d).

Having a blog does not only allow one to express how he or she feels but it can benefit others such as being news feeder. This is because blogs are very influential such as the social networking sites today. An example stated by Naughton (n.d) "if one of your products has flaws, or if a service you provide is sub-standard, then the chances are that the news will appear somewhere on a blog".  This valids the power of blogs and how it can benefit the user or the community.

The statistics of the famous types of blogs in Malaysia are; politics (16%), writing personal topic s (28%) and technology (16%) (Gaman, 2007). All these types of blog provide readers to obtain information from time to time. Other kind of community such as political blogs is highly increasing every day. According to Bower and Stoller (2005), "research conducted by MyDD.com, as of July 2005, the ninety-eight most trafficked progressive blogs totaled an amazing 15,181,649 page views per week, an average of over two million daily page views. This is because of blog's interactive nature that helps facilitate the individual to lower their inhibitions to speak about sensitive issue and also ideas can spread across blogosphere without worrying about the factors that limit community meetings (Lewis, 2007).

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