web2.0

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch noted recently that the advent of Web logs or blogs, as they are commonly known, and personal websites is probably comparable to the invention of the printing press some five centuries ago in terms of their potential to revolutionise humankind's knowledge dissemination and knowledge creation. Blogs (the term "blog" entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2003) are a natural progression from Internet chat rooms, ICQ and online diaries. According to Microsoft's latest survey on blogging in Thailand, about 21 per cent of the country's 8.4 million Internet users are now bloggers, those who read or write online diaries or journals. Comparing this to the regional average of 46 per cent, the survey noted that while blogging is still quite new in Thailand, it is ahead of other places such as India.The survey is part of the "Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report" conducted online across seven Asian markets, namely Hong Kong, India, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand, in which more than 25,000 people participated between August and September 2006.