blogosphera

I myself dont even know when blogging started to take shape. I only knew about blogging when I first read Jules and jlaw's blogs some years back, and only took up the blog writting habit less than a couple of years back.

Then you heard or read about singers/artists in the entertainment industry also has their own blog, with the main purpose to reach out to their fans in a different way.

Then, you heard about top blogger in Malaysia KennySia and top blogger from Singapore XiaXue. They are like celebrity in the blogosphera, almost ever bloggers knew about them.

After a while, you heard about the blogger jeffooi who is very much active in politic, who is now the Jelutong's constituent MP's as well as the first blogger turn politician in the history. Probably you are not aware, I always likened jeffooi becoming MPs in the Parliament to Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming Governor of California :)

As of today, Dr Khir Toyo himself is now a blogger as well in the familiar google's blogspot, making headlines in some chinese newspaper today. Dr Khir is said to be the first senior UMNO member who become a blogger, and with speculations that many politicians will follow his footstep.

Case in point, there are 2:-

1st, blogging is now a recognized media and trend in the world wide web. I see that current blogging proliferation is just at the infant stage and there is a huge space for growth. With this, Nuffnang (a blog advertising company and Asia first) will make big furtune from there.

2nd, socio-politic-bloggers were once condemned by government/politicians, and they were like "pest", who falsified facts, and poaching into the "sentiment issue" territory, and often got sued or arrested. But now you see many politicians started to take up blogging. Arent it an irony?