Currently the size of the blogosphere is large, with the majority bloggers coming from North America and European Union. Malaysia is catching up too and there are certain trends about it.
Our fourth prime minister's blog!
Many people these days blog to express their thoughts. There are many reasons as to why blogging is becoming so popular these days. Here is a finding that may shed light to the trend in blogging these days that has evolved into so many categories.
Chart from Technorati.com
Malaysians are light and easy blog readers. They don't go searching for new blogs to enhance their information, instead they look for some local gossips and government bashing topics to read (Costa).
In the Malaysian context, this is good for political means. Politicians can no longer be sure that the media can make them sound nice because blogs threatens to expose the bad side of politicians. Politicians such as Dr Mahathir Mohamed can use blogs to talk about current issues which are read by many Malaysians.
Blogging and twitter relationship!
The trend now is linking Twitter and blogs together. It is found from Technorati that many bloggers are following the trend to improve traffic flow and improve business marketing.
Trends are enveloping in different societies, are you up to date yet?
Reference:
Costa n.d., How to get Malaysian blog traffic to your blog, last viewed 5/5/2011
Sussman, M 2009, Technorati, last viewed 5/5/2011
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