Today’s Trend
Bloging has become one of the famous activities among the young generation in the internet today. It is all contributed from Bloger.com website which formed during 1999. During 2007, there are about 120,000 of new weblogs generated worldwide everyday (Johnson, 2007).
In the current trend, people like to write about their favorite such as artist, vehicle, sport, you name it. They will then comment on the subject they post, expressing their opinion towards it. In some cases, bloger allow the public to post their comment or in other words feedback on their opinion. This creates argument towards the topic. From here people will able understand the subject from different point of view.
The advantage of Bloging
Blog has created an opportunity to the public to voice out their opinion. According to Microsoft (2008), there are only small amounts of audience for each blog, according to their research, 40% of the total blog have less than ten visitors. Nevertheless, blog are more trendy in Korea, up 11% of blog in Korea have more than 50 visitor per week (Microsoft 2008).
Through the research by Microsoft Group (2008), they conclude that, blogging has become a social phenomenon to Asians. It is one of the internet tools that the Asian utilize it to maintain and build their social networks as well as to express themselves.
Reference
Johnson, B 2007, Blogs mark the first 10 years, Guardian News & Media Limited http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/apr/07/blogging.news Viewed 6 May 2008
Microsoft 2006 Blogging Phenomenon Sweeps Asia, Press realease http://advertising.microsoft.com/asia/NewsAndEvents/PressRelease.aspx?Adv_PressReleaseID=296 viewed 6 May 2008
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