(Source: Technorati 2010)
The Star Newspaper even reported Malaysia current has around 500,000 active bloggers, as also ranking as the highest in the world after Indonesia and the European Union (2009). In Malaysia, there are over 74% of bloggers in Malaysia are below 25 years old, and almost 64% of the bloggers are female. What about the blogging trend in Malaysia? Interesting fact found that politician's blogs scored low in popularity chart across Asia except Malaysia (2006).
Whereas in Arab, the blogging trend over this country is mainly surrounding with politics, culture and dissent (Menassat, 2009). There are thousands of Arab blogs in the Middle East are widely emerging the blog trends on the online community. According to the findings (Menassat, 2009), the study found that majority of the Arab blogs are written in diary form, based on personal observations and encounters on everyday life. However, when it comes to politics issue, Arab bloggers truly gives a critical opinion on the particular issues. Besides that, most of them are young male.
www.360east.com is one of the world top Arab blog.
References:
Sobel, J 2010, State of the blogosphere, Technorati, viewed 20 April 2011, <http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2010-introduction/>.
The Star, 2008, Blogging in Malaysia ranks highest in the world, viewed 19 April 2011, <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/4/3/nation/20827588&sec=nation%3E>.
Asian Correspondent, 2006, Microsoft: '64% of Malaysian bloggers are female', viewed 20 April 2011, <http://asiancorrespondent.com/6615/microsoft-64-of-malaysian-bloggers-are-female/>.
Menassat, 2009, "Politics, culture, and dissident:" New study maps out trends in Arab blogsphore, viewed 20 April 2011, <http://www.menassat.com/?q=en/news-articles/6705-politics-culture-and-dissident-new-study-maps-out-trends-arab-blogosphere>.
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