PEOPLE AND BLOG

Blog becomes a social trend among people. Nowadays, candidates of president also have their own blog. People use blog to give comment regularly, announce and describe about some events, advertising, and other materials. According to Technorati (2008) most of people have advertising on their web blog. Blog is Web that overlooked by the mainstream media, at least is the proliferation of public diaries (Dvorak, 2002).

Blog and mainstream media has a lot of similarities such as have similar characteristic, style and form. Based on Technorati (2008) blog sphere has big influences and size. As a result, blog influence people around the world such as in Europe, Asian, Malaysia and other countries.

In Europe, There are more than 90% of people in Europe ever heard about blogging and more than 70 million of people in euro have blogging experiences (Ipsos MORI, 2006). Most of them use blog to keep up date with the events, policy issues, and current developments issues. In Asia, take china for example, there are more than 300, 000 blogger in china ( Borton, 2004). Most of them use blog to find the information, advertise, or to up date about government issues

In Malaysia, 28% of the Malaysian Top 50 Bloggers write about personal stuff, 16% write about politics, 16% write about technology (Gaman, 2007).However, politics blog has more influential to the community in Malaysia. It can be seen from the number of politic blogs in Malaysia such as limkitsiang.com, Jeff Ooi, anwar Ibrahim blog and others. According to Gaman (2007) Political blog such as Jeff Ooi is more influential than a personal blog such as KennySia.com. According to Malaysia Alea Traffick ranking shows that there are more than 40.000 people visited limkitsiang.com. It shows that Malaysians are more interesting to political blog.

List of References

1. Alexa 2005, ‘Limkitsiang.com’, Viewed 2 June 2009, <http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/limkitsiang.com>
2. Borton, J 2004,’ A blogger's tale: The Stainless Steel Mouse’, Asia Times online, Viewed 1 June 2009, <http://atimes.com/atimes/China/FG22Ad04.html>

3. Dvorak, J.C 2002, ‘The Blog Phenomenon’, PCmag, Viewed 2 June 2009,

   <http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/41011001/ShowPost.aspx>

4. Fleishmana Hillard 2009, ‘How MEPs use the internet: where is the dialogue?’,Viewed 1 June 2009,< http://eu.fleishmaneurope.com/blog/2009/05/19/how-meps-use-the-internet-where-is-the-dialogue/>

5. Gaman 2007,’ 50 Most Influential Blogs in Malaysia’, Sabahan.com, Viewed 1 June 2009, <http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/>
6. Slideshare 2009,’Business impact of blogs - Presentation Transcript’, Viewed 1 June 2009, <http://www.slideshare.net/swamicrm/business-impact-of-blogs>


7. Technorati 2008, State of the Blogosphere, Technorati, Viewed 30 May 2009, <http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere>