Blogosphere

When blogs are newly introduced, many people are skeptics about it.
This is because the users are mainly teenager who blog about their life.
Today, blogs has turn into a dominant place for internet surfers.
Even Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak also has his own blog now.
Click here to visit his blog.

As Brad Feld, Managing director of Foundry Group has said that :
"“In 2004 when Technorati started, the typical reaction to the word ‘blog’ was ‘huh - can you repeat yourself?’ Today, blogs are everywhere —even presidential candidates have blogs"


Other than that, this phenomenon is proven by the number of blogs available in the blogosphere.
(refer to picture below)

With that much of blogger , what are they blogging about ?
Well, it is highly depend on the country.As Schriver (1997) say that whatever is designed or publish must cater to the audience's needs, wants and belief.
For example , Malaysian audience tend to read blogs that are related to politics. Some famous blogger like Jeff Ooi, Lim Kit Siang,Former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir mainly include their political views.

There are many type of blogs that are categorized by Thinkquest (2006) such as :

• Personal
  
• Corporate
• Collaborative
• Humour
  
• Spam

Benefits

Blogs now serves as alternative media in Malaysia as people are more dependant to blogs. The corporates also gain benefits as it provide platform for marketing and advertising.

Reference

Schriver, KA 1997, Dynamics in document design: creating texts for readers, Whiley Computer Pub, New York.

Technorati 2008, State of blogosphere 2008, viewed 1 June 2009, <http://www.technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere>

Thinkquest 2006, Types of Blogs, viewed 1 June 2008, <http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01130/typesofblogs.html>