Blogging : Phenomenon greater than any.

                              

Blogs have been growing as a main outlet for advertorials and word spread by institutions of all kinds. It will be difficult to track the exact size of the blogosphere but Technorati (2011) has stated that they are currently tracking 1.2 million blog (Chapman 2011).  Major bloghosts like Wordpress (2011) and Tumblr(2011) have both shown that they host 54.6 million  that 26.4 million blogs , respectively. That’s not it, as we are missing the statistics from major blog host, Blogger.com as they do not provide such statistics for public review. (Chapman 2011)

It is clearly observed that blogging is not just about sharing information, but also earning through advertisement. Blogging advertising sites like Nuffnang have steadily build a concrete network in Asia Pacific with a total of 260,000 bloggers interested in earning extra income through their blogs (Nuffnang 2011). This has proven that the main interest of the Asia Pacific bloggers are slowly shifting into generating extra income.

 Screenshot of Innit : Top 3 trends in Innit, a blog aggregator, shows that the top favorited topics for the past month are income earning topics. 

The Innit database provides an updated pool of information regarding the top blogging topics in various countries, as seen below:-

1. Malaysia – Science and Technology, Current Affairs
2. Singapore -  Food, Fashion
3. Phillippines – Technology, Gossip
4. Australia – Photography, Food

Political and social blogs are important for the Iranian and Malaysian context to update the citezens regarding live happenings in the country. Both coutries are being deeply affected by a growing amount of educated youngsters, as exhibited in the 2009 Iranian Protest (Paul.I 2009) as well as the 2011 Malaysian Bersih protest (Bersih 2011). Blogs are proven to be a lot more extensive, informational and timely as compared to other informational channels such as local newspapers.

This enables them to balance the moral in between both government and non-governmental sides of the current happenings.

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References : 

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