Blogosphere is a group of blogs and their interconnections. It
is also known as a collection of connected communities where there are
discussion between the bloggers used by the media to demonstrate the public’s
voices or opinion on various issues (Worldbloggingforum.com, 2011). Besides
that, the blogosphere is also known as to identify influential blogger and new
bloggers. Consequently, the blogs created by the blogger are mostly about
personal content, political views or also could be about the latest fashion
trends.
According to a research as cited in a website
(Southbourne.com, 2012) it stated that the weblog was produced by the inventor
of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee in 1992. However, Blogger was setup by a small 3-man team in
1999 which now owned by Google. The free we blogging is established and it is
open to the public with internet connections and further sparked up the
blogosphere phenomenon. Consequently, the blogging phenomenon had become conventional
web activity in 2004.
Blogging has become on of the most essential means in voicing
out the publics opinion. Based on Wong (2009) article, some of the top bloggers in Malaysia are Kenny Sia (personal blog),
Anwar Ibrahim, and Lim Kit Siang (political blogs). These professional bloggers voices out their
rights in political manner through blogging so that it is shared to the public
as well. Therefore, the benefits of a prevalent blogger is that it gives the
society a different perspective rather than only absorbing information from the
media. Besides that, blogging also
serves the public as a social network to communicate with other bloggers and
also in promoting their products online
for business purposes.
References
Wong, A 2009, ‘Top 100 Malaysian blogs’, Rice
blogger, weblog post’ [online] available at: http://www.riceblogger.com/top-100-malaysian-blogs/
viewed 15th September 2012
Worldbloggingforum.com, 2011, ‘What is blogosphere?’
[online] available at: http://www.worldbloggingforum.com/what-is-blogosphere.html
Viewed: 15th September 2012
Sourthbourne.com, 2012, ‘The blogging phenomenon explained’
[online] available at: http://www.southbourne.com/articles/blogging-explained
viewed: 15th September 2012
1. Blogosphere-include latest trends of usage as said in technorati.com, and explain blogging phenomenon by relating to new media ecosystem concept by Naugton. Provide specific examples to benefits/ trends to increase credibility.
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Overall, explore readings from journals & books, and refrain from using general websites (wisegeek/dictionaries/ wikis) & student's blog for conceptual citations.