In today's world that is constantly changing, blogging has become such a phenomenon. Almost everyone has a blog. In Technorati State of The Blogosphere 2009 report states that the growth of the blogosphere's influence on subjects ranging from business to politics to the way information travels through communities continues to flourish. As people blogs more nowadays, the size of the current blogosphere is increasing. The number of people who are involved in blogging also varies. In Technorati report, 72% of the respondents are those who take blogging as a hobby, 15% of them consider blogging as part time jobs, 9% are self employed who uses blogs for their own company or organization, and the 4% of the respondents are the pros who claims to blog for a company or organization.
There are many kinds of blogs in the web today and each blog differs from one to another. For example during the 2008 US Presidential Election, there was a blog made for it, http://www.danielpipes.org
Also in Malaysia itself, there is a political blogs that discuss many aspects of Malaysian political condition http://gila.sarawho.com. Another example of political blog outside Malaysia is http://www.thememriblog.org/iran. This blog focuses on the situation that arises in the Middle East.
All examples of these prevalent blogs benefits the society in many ways. The people who view these blogs will benefit by knowing what is happening on the globe, locally as well as internationally. These blogs also give the society the chance to comment on any posts that the blogs have. By commenting the posts, people will have the benefits to interact with others and exchange thoughts as well as forming a society within the blogs.
References:
McLean, J 2009 'State of The Blogosphere 2009 Introduction' Technorati Blogging viewed 30 September 2010 http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2009-introduction/
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