Blogging - Ain't just an online diary

When I first heard about blogging, I’ve always thought it was like an online diary and I wasn’t too fond of that idea because I had that thought in mind like “why would anyone want to share their inner feelings out to the world”, only to find that I was wrong.

Blogging has grown so much that it has a vast variety of site to select. Nowadays to kick start a blog, there is BlogSpot, Xanga, Wordpress, Lifelogger, Google blog and even now Tumblr.

According to David Sifry, Technorati’s chief executive, the current number of blogs is now over 8 times bigger than the 500,000 blogs it measured in June, 2003. The company tracked 3 million blogs as of the first week of July, and has added over 1 blogs to its stable since then. Meanwhile, Report shows that a new weblog is created every 5.8 seconds. That roughly translates into 15,000 new blogs every day. (Pew Internet & American Life, 2004)

Blogging has a lot of its benefits, for some, it is use for online shopping, examples are like clothing lines or phone’s accessories and for some, blogging has been pretty political, but many has use blog to be their own voice in this country.

Reference :

1) McGann R, The blogosphere by Numbers, viewed on September 30th 2010 http://www.clickz.com/clickz/stats/1709780/the-blogosphere-by-numbers

2) Sussman M, Day 1: Who Are The Bloggers, viewed on September 30th 2010

http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-1-who-are-the-bloggers1/

3) Sussman M, Day 2: The What and Why of Blogging, viewed on September 30th 2010

http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-1-who-are-the-bloggers1/