Friday, May 2, 2008

Classfication of Blogs & Example(s) of blogging community

As the research and analysis had abstract from the facts that stated above, both bloggers and their respective written blog can be classified into distinguished range of category, from daily-bread blog, social awareness blog, profession-blog, animator and gamer blog, and the blog that opened for discussion for the certain group of historian about their justification and argument towards certain historical facts,


such as the truth of Jesus Christ’s life as the son of god that sparked by the recent movie that based on the controversial masterpiece authored by Dan Brown: The Da Vinci’s Code (Pic Left) (http://blog.jerusalemperspective.com/) , moreover, the biggest surge of all the blogging phenomenon is the political blog indefinitely, after had learned the power and influence of the content of a blog that might inflicted towards the public, most of the politician that hailed from different part of the world had started to embrace it by proactively establish their own blog of political manifesto, one of them is the two popular incumbent of the upcoming America presidential election: Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom both are using blog to interact with their supporter that hailed from the American community;










Never forget that the surge are, too, heavily felt back in our own home soil Malaysia, our much respected former Prime Minister: Tun Dr. Mahathir (the picture of the left are courtesy of http://www.chedet.com/ 2008) had recently started his own blog: http://www.chedet.com/ (the exact day to be precise is 01:27 pm on the 02 May 2008, which is the day we pass up our first part of our blog assignment). In his blog, Tun Dr. Mahathir had emphasize the topic of the current issues that happened within the local political scenario, especially the recent reformation campaign of the nation’s judiciary system launched by the Government, which he questioned the most, however, so far that a mixed reaction and comment of both pros and cons from the public commentators in response of his blog; In additional, his usual fiery temperament of political stance during his time as the Prime Minister had been clearly resurfaced in his blog.











And the most recent and interesting topic that linked blogging towards the show- business is indefinitely the new and upcoming American drama ala soap opera namely Gossip Girl that based on the best-selling novel, the story plot of the drama is focusing on a group of rich and famous young adult that bind on their on rules while studying in their university, unbeknownst to them, every single deeds that done by them are actually under the surveillance of an anonymous female blogger whom called herself Gossip Girl that her identity shrouded in mystery throughout the episodes of the drama, instead of the band of young adult, she is indeed the center-stage of the entire storyline, This band of rich and famous young adult, as described by this anonymous blogger: Wielding their best ‘weapon of choice’ to deal with the most ugliest side of school life: Class politics, which prompted this anonymous blogger to blog about their notorious lifestyle around the university such as sex scandal and romantic quadrangle between the six main cast of the drama. As the example that stated above, we realized that the influence of blogging phenomenon not only limited to the realm of world wide web but as well as been transcribe and remake onto the screen of Television and Cinema.



Reference

1)Bivin D, 2006, 'JP's Perspective on 'The Da Vinci Code' viewed 06 June 2008, from
http://blog.jerusalemperspective.com

2)nytimes.com 2008, The Caucus 'Clinton says V.P is Obama's Choice, viewed from 06 June 2008, from
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/clinton-disavows-reports-that-she-wants-to-be-vp

3)Mahathir M, 2008, chedet.com 'The Appointment of Judges' blog article, viewed 02 May 2008 from
http://www.chedet.com/search?updated-max=2008-05-02T18%3A10%3Aoo%2Bo8%3Aoo&max-results=7

4)CWTV,'Gossip Girl's Story Synopsis' viewed 02 May 2008, from
www.cwtv.com/shows/gossip-girl

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