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I don’t normally read the papers or take note about anything on the mainstream media. I find that there are more advertising on newspaper then there are actual news. Scanning the papers, I sometime find interesting report, especially if it says “Blogger” in the title.

A report on The Star newspaper, today 30th November, say that most Malaysian Bloggers are women. Since I could not find a copy of the article online, I’ll type out snippets that I found interesting.

[UPDATE] I’ve the link to the article. Most bloggers are women - The Star.

If you are a Malaysian and you have your own blog, the odds are that you’re a woman, aged 25 or under.

64% of local bloggers are female and 74% of them are in that age group.

That’s an interesting information on the demographic of the Malaysian Blogosphere.

This is a finding of an international online survey involving more than 25000 Microsoft MSN web portal visitors visitors in August and September.

I however can’t find the result of this survey on the net, I’ve tried Google and also MSN.

It [the survey] found that 41% of who went online also blogged.

Now that’s interesting, almost nearly half of Malaysian who has access to the internet is blogging. Those who think blogging is not that very popular among Malaysians should think again. Blogging is an emerging trend in Malaysia and it is growing.

For those who thinks that this is not true, you should take note that blogging in not just Blogger or Wordpress. Social networks nowadays has blogs build in to them. Frienster has a blogging engine for it users, so does Myspace. LifeLogger in another example of a fine social network that works around the concept of blogging.

The majority of blog readers, 81%, are most interested in blogs written by friends or family

Most Malaysian thinks blogs as a way to get in-touch with close friends and family. Usually a Friendster blog is only view by your friends. These bloggers usually only write for their friends or family and not for a broader audience. To them blogs are a way to update their friends about themselves. This is the market that blogging services such as Vox and Blinklife is for.

What I would like to see are blogs from business leaders and corporate blogs, why not? Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Sun each has their blog. I also like to see blogs from our Malaysian governments and politicians, why not? Iran President Mr Ahmadinejad has a blog (the blog doesn’t load properly when view in Safari, you need to click the spinning arrow thing to view, would some one get some Macs over to Iran please).

So come on everybody, boys and girls, men or women, business leaders or politicians, start blogging.

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