According to Technorati (2009), the number of blogs created and published have rapidly increasing rapidly in numbers and proofing than it is the current phenomenon today. more than 133,000,000 blogs have been indexed by Technorati since 2002 and it is inevitably becoming a lifestyle since 77% of Internet users read blogs according to Universal McCann. Another statistics that we retrieve from Technorati would be 2/3 of professional bloggers are male, and 60% are between 18 – 44 years old. 75% have college degrees, and 40% have graduate degrees. Half have household incomes of $75,000 or more. 17% of them say blogging is their primary source of income.
This statistics may be another boring statistics that you may found in other aspects but, the fact that blogging have evolved from a mere 'diary' for geeks into a way to get another source of income have sure exposing its benefits to many youngsters today.
Let's take this Indonesian blogger, Raditya Dika. He started just as a normal blogger and due to
the increased of his blog popularity, he ended up as a celebrity in Indonesia and nominated as the
Best Blogger in 2003. Although this is a rare case where a normal blogger ended up as a Celebrity
in some country, blogging itself have shown its various benefits through different use of blog itself.
Reference List
Technorati 2009, State Of The Blogosphere: The Full Blog World Presentation, viewed 15 April 2010, http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/16/2009-state-of-the-blogosphere-the-full-blogworld-presentation/
Dika, R 2010, 'Kambing Jantan', Raditya dika dan hal absurd lainnya, online, viewed 15 April 2010, http://radityadika.com/
