a. Blog has current phenomenon and Benefit of Blogging Community

What is blog and why people use blog?
Blog is usually mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a type of hybrid diary site, even though there are as many unique type of blog as people are. People are maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably blogger at blogger. com (Marketing term 2011). Billion of people use this kind of service like Blogger to classify and speed up the publishing process. The activities of updating blog post is called blogging and the person who updates the blog is called blogger. Basically, people who are using blog mostly are teenager, they often talk about their self, daily life, every moments that they go through. Sometimes, people tend to publish their article or writing to the other's blogger or reader so that people can leave a comment or opinion about their post. But somehow, some people dont want people to know about their article so they tend to set their setting into private so that people wont read the blog.

Current Blogger and Blogging Trend

"Adopting an interdisciplinary scope, this paper presents a review of research on blogs and  blogging within the social sciences and the humanities. It maps out what kind of research has been completed, how it has been performed and what gaps that might need to be filled in this relatively new area of research. More specifically, the paper will analyze all articles on blogs and blogging published until 2009 and indexed by the ISI Web of Knowledge" (Stefan HRastinki, 2011)

The number of people using blog is increasingly. When blog becomes way to ups thats when people start using it. It is really convenience because people can express anything by writing something on the blog. For people who hard to express their feeling they tend to write about anything they want, because easy for them to spread out what do they feel since they cant exposes to anyone. In Indonesia, almost 70% of the people blog is about personal and the rest is about politic, business, fashion and many more.

Reference
Hrastinki 2011, Stefan Hranstinki Blog, viewed on 10 May 2011 <http://hrastinski.posterous.com/blogs-and-blogging-current-trends-and-future>.

Marketing term, What is blog, viewed on 10 May 2011 <http://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/blog/>.