Blogs as phenomenon and beneifts to community

A blog is a website with constant uploads of commendatory, photos,opinions or videos; and are displayed in reverse chronological order. Therefore, the Blogosphere is the collective community of all blogs. Since all blogs are on the Internet, they may be viewed as interconnected and socially networked. Discussions "in the Blogosphere" have been used by the media as a gauge of public opinion on various issues.The size of the current blogsphere has reached approximately 133 million blogs as recorded by Technoraty (2008).

Blogs have played a major role in the Malaysian political context, where politicians take advantage of the widespread of the Internet to keep in touch with voters. Our former prime minster Tun Dr Mahathir owns a blog, where he posts his opinions on current political situations, and Internet readers can access easily to his web and follow his blog.

Opposition party politician, Lim Kit Siang owns a blog, where he also blogs about his opinions on current affairs, bringing readers into a different opinion which is based on the opposition party's perspective.

As blogs are much easier and faster to access to, Internet users have turned to political blogs for updates in the political world.

This has really benefited the political world, because in this modern day era voters are also Internet users, therefore political parties can woo voters through their blogs.

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References

1. Technorati 2009, State of the Blogsphere, last viewed 15th June 2009,

<http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere>