Blogs as current phenomenon & benefits of blogging to the community

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Almost everyone around the globe knows what blogging is all about and it has already conquered the culture in our world today. According to Technorati (2008), there is a ballpark figure of 133 millions registered blogs in the cyberspace and approximately 900,000 blog posts are being published in 24 hours.

Besides that, in Asia, many people believe that by blogging, one is able to know more about the present affairs, which are going on (Powazek 2006).In Europe, many fashion designers uses blog to notify consumers regarding their product or even updating them with the most up-to-date craze in the market (Apparel1 2008).

As for Malaysia, it is said that roughly 500,000 bloggers could be found on the Internet (Kaufman 2008). According to Yeow (2008), there are blogs owned by Malaysian’s veteran politicians to uphold both opposition and government’s point of view.

Nearly everyone desires to express their opinion to the society or nation of what they have in mind (BBC News 2006). All the above blogs stated shares one thing in common, which is multimodality. Walsh (2006) points out that multimodality is a form of text, which has multiple modes.

Lastly, blogging has taken over the world by storm and there is no doubt about it with the rising figure of bloggers over time.

References

Apparel 1 2008, 'Fashion Industry Network', viewed 9 April 2010, [http://www.fashionindustrynetwork.com/profiles/blogs/fashion-trends]

BBC News 2006, 'Blogging 'set to peak next year', BBC news, viewed 9 April 2010, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6178611.stm]

Kaufman, S 2008, 'Malaysia's Alternative Media Become Decisive Political Factor', America.gov, viewed 8 April 2010, [http://www.america.gov/st/democracy-english/2008/April/20080403175441esnamfuak0.1705591.html]

Powazek, D 2006, 'Blogosphere in Asia', viewed 10 April 2010, [http://iteau.wordpress.com/2006/11/29/asianblogophere/]

Technorati 2008, 'State of Blogosphere/2008', viewed 10 April 2010, [http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/who-are-the-bloggers/]

Walsh, M 2006, 'The 'textual stuff': Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal text', vol.29, no.1, pp. 24-37.

Yeow, J 2008, 'Malaysian politicians take to blogging, Thaindian', viewed 11 April 2010, [http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/malaysian-politicians-take-to-blogging_10062197.html]