Blogs as current phenomenon & benefits of blogging to the community

Nowdays, Blog is being a popular medium for people to express their opinion about issue that happening around the world. with the simple reason of started a blog, there is lot of journalist that actually born from this new media. In order to maintain the relationship between bloggers , there is a term that had been found in order to interlink one to another called blogsphere. according to searchsoa.com about the definition of blogsphere "Blogosphere is a term some writers have used to describe the grassroots and interactive journalism made possible by participants in blogs "

according to my observation through technorati.com , there is record in 2008, where by 133 million blog have been publish by Technorati since 2002, and the number of blog are increasingly until now.

(Source : www.marketingcharts.com)

From the presentation above, shows that the amount of blogger increasing everyday. This fact is supported my opinion which is with the high number of blogger compare to journalist, as soon as possible the position in the journalism world will be retake by bloggers. And It's might give some negative effect which is there will be no proper rule on journalism because the blogger tend to write according to their opinion.

The topic of their blog is currently different one to another, some of the blog are use to personal purposes and some of them for commercial purposes. In Malaysia, the trend of blogging are become one of the most popular in the teenager-adults society. according to my observation, certain people choose to write blog about their life style, such as sharing their new expirience. but recently the most popular one is for blog shopping. according to Google trend Google start to found the blog shop in 2005, and it's still increasing until now. The chart above is showing that most people is doing blog on their lifestyle.

Blog shop is one of the example for lifestyle blog. the reason why they choose blog as a medium, because blog is cheaper, we can say that is non-cost website and it's easier for them to promote their goods trough Free Social Media Marketing News such as Tweeter and Facebook. It's benefit to the society because blog shopping is actually one of the easy way to shop, there is more option to avoid over use of credit card because they can purchase it directly.

References

Blogosphere, 3 march 2006, viewed on 9 april 2010

http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci1007574,00.html

bloging hits mainstream, Integral to Media Ecositem,2010, vieewed on April 11 2010
http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/blogging-hits-mainstream-integral-to-media-ecosystem-6256/technorati-state-of-blogosphere-size-2008jpg/

The Reason why Blog Shopping is becoming popular today
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MRymAOLSz-8J:blogshop.my/blog-shop/blog-shopping-trend.html+trend+of+blog+in+malaysia&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=my