‘Habermas develops the normative notion of the public sphere as a part of social life where citizens can exchange views on matters of importance to the common good, so that public opinion can be formed’ (Habermas 1989) . As reported by technorati ‘the state of the Blogosphere is strong, and is maturing as an influential and important part of the web’ (Sifry 2007).
The graph above shows that, there are at least 70 million weblogs tracked and ‘120000 new weblogs being created worldwide each day’ (Sifry 2007).
Micro-blogging is the current trend these days, most of the bloggers at least own either twitter or facebook. Through micro-blogging, bloggers are able to share and promote their blogs. Like the graph shown above, most of the bloggers link their micro-blogs and blogs together.
Blogs are also the current trend these days, for example personal blogs in Asia. Bloggers in Asia usually create personal blogs as a hobby during their free time. Personal blogger usually posts about their daily lives or blog about their hobbies.
On the other hand political blogs are the current trends for countries like the Middle East and Malaysia. Political blogs are prevalent in Malaysia as a way for public to voice out their opinion and discuss issues that are not brought up in the media. Through blogging, bloggers are able to voice out freely without feeling restricted by the government. Although political blogs are also a trend in Middle East however ‘in 2003 Iran became the first nation to imprison a blogger for blogging’ (Sussman 2009). Thus, political blogs in the Middle East are not fully prevalent as there are rules to abide when they blog.
There are benefits from reading or owning these prevalent blogs. For example, Voice of Malaysian, jeffooi, rockybru, limkitsiang. Political blogs like these provides the latest information about Malaysia’s politics and it gives a variety of perspectives. As mention above, the public will be able to share their thoughts about the politics. Owning blogs benefits the blogger because, advertisers place their advertisements on famous blogs to promote their item. In return the blogger would have an income from the company advertising on their blog.
References :
1) Habermas, J 1989, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, viewed on 20 August 2011, <http://www.zipworld.com.au/~athornto/thesis2.htm >.
2) Sifry, D 2007, The State of the Live Web, April 2007, viewed on 20 August 2011, <http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html>.
3) Solis, B 2010, The State of the Blogosphere 2010, viewed on 20 August 2011, <http://www.briansolis.com/2010/12/the-state-of-the-blogosphere-2010/>.
4) Sussman, M 2009, Day 5: Twitter, Global Impact and the Future Of Blogging, viewed on 20 August 2011, <http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-5-twitter-global-impact-and/page-2/>.
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