Over 50 million blogs have been tracked since 2006 by Technorati and it is reported that 175, 000 blog posts are checked in daily. This shows the waves which blogging has created that have swept our ever-growing community in terms of technology. Based on that statistic, one could only wonder the amount of blog posts that exist ever since Technorati began their annual reports back in 2004. Blogging has somewhat become a trend among writers and regular folk for purposes such as entertainment, news or even a public diary; however it has not replaced traditional forms of media despite being mainstream.
It is said that a majority of bloggers are indeed highly educated and are a respected bunch with research showing that almost half of them having a graduate degree (Sussman, 2009). Apart from that, statistics also show that two-thirds of bloggers are males between the ages 18 and 44.
According to reports, there are four different types of blogs in existence and they include hobbyist (72%), part-timers (15%), self-employed (9%) and professionals (4%) (McLean, 2009). Bloggers who blog completely out of hobby do not make profit from their posts as opposed to part-timers, self-employed and professionals who actually derive profit from their blogs.
The blogging phenomenon however varies from different cultures and nations, like for instance in Europe where blogging is not a popular endeavor among people. Only 2% of them write blogs, 11% reads them, and 37% are not even aware of blogs (Rubel, 2006). Contrastingly in Asia, blogging has spread like wild fire over the past decade, credit to popular American entertainment blogs such as people.com and perezhilton.com.
In Malaysia however, the blogging trend seems to be quite different from that of in the Western hemisphere. A strong majority of influential blogs are pertaining personal events which occur (28%) whereas politics and technology are right behind the majority (16%) (Loone, 2007). Popular blogs among Malaysians is believed to be those into politics such as Anwar Ibrahim as well as Lim Kit Siang as they offer an alternative perspective and understanding of happenings in and around the political ring without censorship (Wong, 2009).
References
Loone, S 2007, ’50 most influential blogs in Malaysia’, Sloone.wordpress, weblog post, 6 February, viewed 12 April 2012, <http://sloone.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/>
McLean, J 2009, State of State of the Blogosphere 2009 Introduction, Technorati, 19 October, viewed 12 April 2012, <http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2009-introduction/>
Rubel, S 2006, ‘Blogging slow to take off in Europe’, Micropersuasion, weblog post, 3 April, viewed 12 April 2012, <http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/04/blogging_slow_t.html>
Sussman, M 2009, Day 1: Who are the bloggers? SOTB 2009, Technorati, October 19, viewed 12 April 2012 <http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-1-who-are-the-bloggers1/>
Technorati, 2006, State of blogosphere, viewed 12 April 2012 <http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000436.html>
Wong, A 2009, ‘Top 100 Malaysian blogs’, Rice blogger, weblog post, 7 May, viewed 12 April 2012,<http://www.riceblogger.com/top-100-malaysian-blogs/>
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