Malaysia has about 500,000 active bloggers, ranking the country among the highest in the world after Indonesia and European Union.
According to a research by Universiti Malaya, 70% of the election result were influenced by the information in the blogs. Dr. Abu Hassan Hasbullah, lecturer of media department said this showed the power of blog influencing the thinking of people and having a wide reach considering how many Internet users visited these sites everyday.
Further he added the ruling government could use blogs but he pointed out that it would take a long time for it to be popular.
Source : Utusan Malaysia
According to a research by Universiti Malaya, 70% of the election result were influenced by the information in the blogs. Dr. Abu Hassan Hasbullah, lecturer of media department said this showed the power of blog influencing the thinking of people and having a wide reach considering how many Internet users visited these sites everyday.
Further he added the ruling government could use blogs but he pointed out that it would take a long time for it to be popular.
Source : Utusan Malaysia
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