The BlogDay Phenomenon

I have been intrigued by the stuff i've been reading about BlogDay. I remember when I started my private blog 2 1/2 years ago, 3 out of 10 people I spoke to knew what it was. Today, it's achieved true pop culture status. There are at least 1 million blogs out there I'm sure (including the inactive ones). I dare say out of 10 people with internet connection today, 8 of them would have heard of blogs or visited a blog and at least half would actually own one. Blogging is sweeping the world right now, just as how as the Internet and email has done in the past. Blogging will not only be the future of tmr's mainstream journalism, but it will help individuals develop better writing skills I believe and it will also help create a more knowledgable soceity through the constant information that will be shared among bloggers and bloggers as well as bloggers and readers.

That is why I'm promoting BlogDay2005. I think it's great that a special day be given exclusively to weblogs. Not only it's a good publicity effort to promote weblogs around the world, but it also encourages new individuals to try this healthy and interesting hobby. I've added a countdown timer on the right hand panel to count the number of days till Blog Day. Blog Day will be celebrated on August 31st, which is ironic because the Malaysian Independence Day also falls on the same date. Why 31st august? Because aparently 3108 resembles the world BLOG. Interesting....

Need more info on Blog Day? Well you can either click the green countdown timer or click here

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