Actually, blogs exist for years. These days, blogs went from nothing to something big in just only one seconds and no one can figure it out but it seems like blogs has offer something that can make people addicted. Web blog is mainly an online journal or we can call it an online diary. Some people using blog only for fun while others lean to do some business in blog. According to Rowse(2005), Blogs generally written by one person and usually update frequently. ABC News stated that bloggers are the “People of the Year”. Nowadays, blogs having a power on mainstream media, because people are being read and write blogs and some blogs measured as educational site and it’s simple to read. We don’t have to make an account only to read some information written in other people blogs. That is why blogs become so phenomenal in this age. According to a study of blogging research by Pew Internet & American Life Project, the development of internet users who read blogs increase up to 58% in 2004. On the other hand, according to the information, the interest for blogging is still restricted to a minority of Internet users which 62% of online Americans reported that they do not know what the meaning of ‘blog’ itself is.
list of References:
Rowse, D 2005, What is a Blog?, PROBLOGGER, viewed 30 May 2009, http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/02/05/what-is-a-blog/
Maderazo, JW 2008, Blog Till You Drop' Phenomenon Overblown; Disconnecting Is Key, MediaShift, viewed 02 June 2009),
Technorati 2008, State of the Blogosphare, Technorati, viewed 30th May 2009,
http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere
ABC news 2004, Internet Phenomenon Provides Unique Insight into People's Thought, People of the Year: Bloggers, ABC news, viewed 02 June 2009,
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/PersonofWeek/story?id=372266&page=1
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