Blogs as current phenomenon & benefits to the community

source : http://carlabradman.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/exploring-the-property-blogosphere/

As traditional media - prints and televisions - faced its limitations in, for instance, sharing more information quickly and offering engagement opportunities to the people, the easier-and-faster digital media has now become a general trend throughout the world (Tsai, 2009).

The state of blogosphere was studied among the blog users in 2008 by Technorati. The number of blogs tracked has been increasing in chronological order since 2004, resulting 133 million blogs in 2008 with 10.4 new blog posts per second (Winn, 2009).

source: http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-introduction/

Tsai (2009) explains that this rapid increase of blogging has been accelerated by easily participative and prompt in sharing information of the social media tools such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and etc. Moreover, with the ability to have dynamic conversations, it has also become a general trend globally.

The study of the Technorati also stated that the Asian bloggers are more motivational and willing to expose their feelings and stories than the European bloggers who prefer to confront (Winn, 2009).

Source: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905125,00.html

In the year of 2009, twitter has been used for serious issues in Iran for president election protests. The ability to share information in a easy and quick ways, and in real time, it has been an ideal for the mass protest movement enabling twitterers to use hashtags(#) in front of the main word of postings to unite and raise their voices (Grossman, 2009):

Woman says ppl knocking on her door 2 AM saying they were intelligence agents, took her daughter

Ashora platoons now moving from valiasr toward National Tv staion. mousavi's supporters are already there. my father is out there!

we hear 1dead in shiraz, livefire used in other cities RT

source: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1904208_1899173,00.html

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Reference:

Grossman, L 2009, ‘Iran Protests: Twitter, the Medium of the Movement’, Age 17 June, viewed 26 August 2011, http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905125,00.html

Tsai, E 2009, ‘3 Ways to Capitalize on the Destruction of Traditional Media and Embrace Social Media’, viewed 26 August 2011, http://www.designdamage.com/3-ways-to-capitalize-on-the-destruction-of-traditional-media-and-embrace-social-media/

Winn, P 2009, ‘State of the Blogosphere: Introduction’, Technorati, 21 August, viewed 26 August 2011, http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-introduction/