Thursday, 5 May 2011

Blogging as current Phenomenon & Benefits to the Community


Sifry (2006) mentioned that there are 50 million of blogs out there. A research based on Technorati (2006) a blog search company, stated that there are 1.6 million postings per day.

Below is a pie chart showing the percentages of bloggers in worldwide.

Figure 1 - Statistic of bloggers in worldwide
Source: (http://technorati.com/blogging/article/who-bloggers-brands-and-consumers-day/)

As everyone noticed most of the bloggers are from North America 38%, which followed by United States 33%. According to Sobel (2010) California has taken 15%, New York 8%, Texas 6%, Florida 4%, Illinois 4%, Massachusetts 4%, Virginia 4%, Washington 4%, Georgia 3%, and New Jersey 3%.

Apart from that, Sobel (2010) stated that the growth of mobile blogging is a key trend currently, 25% of bloggers are engaged in mobile blogging. While for the 40% of bloggers says blogging from their smart phone has changed the way of blogging, it encourages shorter and more spontaneous posts. He said 48% of bloggers believed more people will be getting their news and entertainment from blogs in the next five years rather than from the traditional media.

Here is another pie chart on the four different types of bloggers in worldwide.




Figure 2 - The four types of bloggers in worldwide
Sorbel (2010) said bloggers can be divided into hobbyist blogger, part timer, corporate, and self employed bloggers. Hobbyist blogger are those who blog for fun, mostly blogging on their daily lifestyles and do not earn any income from it. Whereas part timer bloggers are those who blog to earn extra income, and corporate bloggers are those who blogs for the company to get published in the traditional media and they get income. Self employed are they blog full time or sometimes and most of them have a blog related to their business or company.

As Marlow (2009) believes that the numbers of blogs have grown in the past 10 years by creating the blogging trend. Blogging is to improve the communication skills in each one of us. While, blogs may create more opportunities for the nonprofit organizations by creating awareness, voicing out personal opinions, sharing experiences and information, educating, and employing staff and volunteers. Marlow (2009) blogs are the alternative information and blogging encourages word-of-mouth buzz, meaning others post links of your blog to their websites.

Nowadays, blogging has become a phenomenon in today’s activities. Youths today’s regardless of ages do has a blog, most of them blogged on their daily lifestyles, some discussing on the social issue, creating awareness, discussing the current fashion trends, and blogs for businesses. The benefits of blogging are to share their experiences, knowledge, to voice out and share their opinions, and it also enables the nation to communicate with each other across the country. However they are some restriction while blogging, bloggers must not touch issue on politics as it is a sensitive issue in worldwide.

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