Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Blog as Current Phenomenon and benefits of blogging to the Community

Blogs are becoming very famous where people would pour their feelings on it while writing a post as well as they treat them as their personal diary as well. Besides that, blogs are also the purpose of making money like opening blog shops where they sells clothes, bags or even gadgets instead of renting a shop lot to do businesses like these.Example of blog shops are http://rainbowmallows.blogspot.com and http://attireattic.blogspot.com


According to Technorati (2008), Asian internet users create blogs for the purpose to earn money, this however does not fully means that all internet users create blogs for money purposes but to have a personal blog as a virtual diary for everyone to see. Normally people who has a very well known blog, they DO earn money with it, because they do have alot of readers as their readership can touch up to 20,000 a day. Blogs like http://xiaxue.blogspot.com, http://cheeserland.com and our infamous http://kennysia.com do earn a lot of money buy writing advertorials for people. Technorati (2008) also mentions that many blogs readers fail to see the credible cource for looking because they may not be a dependable medium to trust on comparing to the traditional media.

There are benefits of blogging,
- Allowing people to connect to the society
- Allowing people to share their ideas to people
- Bring awareness to the public of current issue
- Creating a social network


Reference List

Technorati (2008) State of the Blogosphere, Viewed 17th November 2009
http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/

No comments:

Post a Comment