The term ‘blogging’ is not a new word for us in this modern day. Blogging has become a trend for people to speak their mind.A 'blog' is a word that abbreviated from 'weblog' which stands for a website that maintain a progressing chronicle of information ( WordPress 2007).Blog is like a diary except that blogging enable us to share our thought and ideas with people throughout the world, in another word, less personal.
Blogs gives us an opportunity to speak our mind, discuss our personal views with others globally. Popular blogs are able to influence people in many ways. Many Malaysian leaders chose blogging as a form of communication to reach out to their target audiences, especially the young Malaysians. Lim Kit Siang, Jeff Ooi, Tun Dr. Mahathir are some of the influential leaders in Malaysia who have started their own personal blogs.
Besides that, business blogs are used by Malaysians to maintain good relationship with their clients and companies in order to inform them about their new products/business ventures. Lately, it has been a hot trend for Malaysian women who are into fashion to start their own fashion blogs, selling clothes and beauty products to those who are interested.
The benefits of social blogs enable Malaysians to know the latest styles, designs, trends, entertainment, events (both at home and worldwide) and even travel opportunities around Malaysia and abroad. The greatest benefit Information Communication Technology (ICT) has brought to us is the ability to bind us together via its international transmission network.
References :
Walsh, M 2006, ‘textual shift’: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts, Australian journal of language and literacy, vol.29, no.1, pp.24-37.
WordPress 2007, Introduction to blogging, viewed on 16 May 2008,< http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging>
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