Blogs is today's hip

According to Technorati (2008) the current size of people owning a blog in 2008 is 184 million and estimated 346 million blog readers. This has proven that blog as the current blog phenomenon and the number of owning and reading blog is still increasing.

Europe is one of the fashion icons in today’s society. Therefore without hesitation many designers uses blog to promote their product, inform users about fashion week and latest trend (Apparel1, 2008).

When it comes to Asia, the first thing can think about is culture. Therefore many blogs posted are all about culture and tradition not to forget travelling.

Malaysia current prevalent and is famous in politic blogs. According to Yeow (2008) Malaysia veterans politicians owned blogs to promote both opposition and government’s point of view.

Many people express their feelings or even voice out their opinion to the community or nation of what they think (BBC, 2006). Therefore it might be a threat to the politics, but at the bright side it somehow helps the politicians. This is because politicians are now much more versatile whereby they started to use alternative media such as blogs to promote their candidate.

‘’During the 2004 Presidential Campaign in the U.S., Gov. Howard Dean was the first presidential candidate to use blogs to promote their campaign’’ (Johny, 2007).

All the blogs stated above have one thing in common, which is multimodality. According to Walsh (2006) stated that multimodality is a form of text that has more than one mode. In this case the benefits of having blogs by Malaysian is it allows users to upload pictures, video and even mp3 music to entertain and inform of the latest trend in fashion, music, movie, even politics and economic to the community.

References

1. Apparel 1 2008, Fashion industry Network, viewed 4 May, <http://www.fashionindustrynetwork.com/profiles/blogs/fashion-trends>.

2. BBC 2006, Blogging ‘set to peak next year’, BBC news, viewed 4 May, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6178611.stm>.

3. Johny 2007, Why Are Blogs So Important, Computer User, viewed 4 May, .

4. Technorati 2008, State of Blogosphere/2008, viewed 4 May <http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere>.

5. Walsh, M 2006, The ‘textual stuff’: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 24-37.

6. Yeow, J 2008, Malaysians politicians take to blogging, Thaindian, viewed 4 May, http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/malaysian-politicians-take-to-blogging_10062197.html>.