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There are a large number of active blogs on the Internet with more launched every single day. Although much of them or rather the majority of what is discussed in the blogosphere is of little significance and short-lived interest to some, blogs continue to emerge as powerful organizing mechanisms, giving momentum to ideas that shape public opinion and influence their behaviour. In my opinion the blogosphere is indeed a great shift of changing attitudes and new schools of thought.

The size Malaysian social/political blogosphere (or ‘SoPo’, as Malaysians term it), its difficult to say, trying to predict the behaviour of Malaysian social/political blogging community (or one associated with some other country or region) will have to be able to state clearly some reasonable estimate of the community automatically. As one online survey estimates that 46% of those online in Malaysia have a blog according to Colette (2007).

Recently, Blogging in Malaysia has become somewhat noticeable in confronting apparent corruption in the national government in spite of strict governmental control of the major media According to OSC Malaysia.

For example the trends outside Malaysia are providing incomparable access to public opinion about events that happened. Even leading print newspapers like the New York Times publish only 15 to 20 of the 1000 letters they receive daily by people; by contrast, there are over 3000 blog posts that cite a New York Times story every day, including posts not in English Said Feyer (2004).



References List

Analysis: Tension Between Malaysian Bloggers, Authorities Appears To Intensify, FEA20070914318786. OSC Feature – Malaysia – OSC Analysis 13 Sep 07

Colette, Matt. 2006. Blogging Phenomenon Sweeps Asian. MSN Press Release. November 27, 2006.

Feyer, T., Editors’ Note; The Letters Editors and The Reader: Our Compact, Updated. New York Times, May 23, 2004