Current Blogging Trends and it's Future

The media available to us today has seen an enormous growth in its services as we now not only can search about anything with just a simple click. With the access available to us through the internet, almost anything is possible. This is why with the invention of weblogs, we have the freedom of writing our thoughts and sharing it with the world.


With time passing by, even blogs has emerged with with newer trends and issues. Not only can we blog by text, we now have the access to blog by video feeds as well as pictures and audio. This way connection with our peers regardless the distance is achievable in a matter of minutes.


Today, the roles of journalism is under scrutiny and risk being not favoured by readers as we have a blockage in the form of freedom of speech. Therefore, the public nowadays prefer to observe in an alternative route using online servics such as Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, and other alternative online media.


In favour of these alternative media is primarily caused of the publics' curiosity in the accuracy and authenticity of the news published by our 'controlled' journalists. In other words the public just wishes to have a look at things from a different angle.


In Malaysia, this new trend of alternative media has taken its toll and renewed the publics view on a lot of things, mainly the politic landscape. With various questions being asked towards the government and answers which the public are sceptical of, a number of professional bloggers have used the advantage of the internet to put up their thoughts.


For example, we had Raja Petra Kamarudin who is under great scrutiny and chased by the government because of his seditious remarks and accusations towards the government under the basis that they are hiding the truth from the public.


Other than that, we can also see country leaders such as Obama and Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak both having Twitter accounts as they use this form of media to connect with the public as to discuss certain issues which are being discussed. This way, they are also showing to their respective countries and the world that they are up to date and also a good way to promote public imagery. However, whether or not these men that are tweeting are actually them we will never know.
 

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Reference

Naughton, J. 2006, Blogging and the Media Ecosystem, ReutersInstitute, viewed on 30 September 2010, (http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf)