Blogs are growing in popularity day by day with Malaysia being recognised as one of highest ranking country with active blog users of around 500, 000. (The Star, 2008) Technorati claims that about 100,000 blogs are created everyday. Below is a pie chart to showing the number of bloggers in the world.
Source : Technorati, 2010
Lenhart (2006) included a survey by Pew Internet and American Life Project in her article showing statistics of around 12 million American adults adding to the growing population of bloggers that also represents 8% of adult internet users. She added that a staggering amount of 57 million American adults are blog readers, which is 39% of the online population. These statistics are enough to convince me that blogging has indeed become a phenomenon and the numbers are only going to increase everyday.
Blogs serve a diverse range of purpose be it in the political field, technology, business, etc. Sussman (2009) states that politics and business are fields that are most impacted by the blogosphere.
References:
Blogging is bringing new voices to the online world 2006, Pew Internet, viewed 17 April 2011,
