Blogging Issues

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       Nowadays, people are used to online networking to complete tasks in various ways such as blogging. This is a research from Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere in 2011 chronicle.  

The appearance of blogosphere distinguishes the interest and satisfaction or income supplementary as well as a tool to advertise and communicate. In addition, hobbyist stands the highest percentage of blogging reasoning as compared to others. They are popular to share their experience expertise personally. Most of the people aim to blog for personal musings rather than on business and technology used like entrepreneurs and corporate bloggers.

Overall, United States holds the highest percentage of bloggers worldwide. Bloggers used social media such as Facebook or Twitter to access their blog to capture society’s attention and interest. As Naughton (2006) claims that media environment is a need to survive and develop. Hence, most of the hobbyist or especially the entrepreneurs used media to receive information and feedback from what they have blogged.

Moreover, blogging is beneficial when it is in proper usage. For instance, Professional part-and-full-timers and corporate bloggers stated blogging as their primary income including as a job supplier. It is proved in the research stated there is 37% of professional part-and-full-timers blog for income sources (Technorati, 2011).  While Entrepreneurs blog for the usage of attracting clients towards their businesses.

Produsage.org (2008) defines that in collaborative communities the creation of shared content takes place in networked. This explains the importance of a blogger having a reader to complete the cycles of blogging issue. 

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References:

           

Naughton, J, Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem, United Kingdom, viewed 18 March 2012, <http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf>.

Produsage.ord 2008, Produsage: An introduction, viewed 18 March 2012, <http://produsage.org/node/27>.      

Technorati, 2011, State of the Blogosphere 2011, Australia, viewed 18 March 2012, <http://technorati.com/social-media/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2011-part1/>.