Atuk Bloggers...

Once again senior bloggers are featured in the mainstream Newspaper. This time in the New Straits Times, in the Tech&U Section. Last year the Star another Malaysian mainstream Newspaper did a piece on this subject. Thanks to Rozana Sani of NST for narrating well the ways of blogging by the Malaysian senior bloggers which includes Me. Thus in some ways it gave more ideas and information to the masses on why blogging is important to the Malaysian society. To me blogging is a new media that has yet to be understood by the society. It is just like when Television was invented and first introduce to the society and became the New Media after the Newspaper.

In the beginning no one thoughts that the Television would became such an important media in our world today. Our culture are shaped by the programmes on the TV. We get news at the speed of light via the TV and get entertained in our own home by the TV. So in a way the Box do become a part of our lives. Just imaging a day without the TV. I know that for a fact. Sometimes long ago when our TV stop working and had to be send to the shop for repair, we were for sometimes were 'lost'. Even though at that time there was only one or two channels and the programme in black and white, our family without the TV became sort of despaired. We seem to lost somethings that we just took for granted while it is there. To get to a normal life again I had to borrow a TV and used it while our TV was been repaired. So that was how the TV affects our lives. And now we just could not live without it. We now have more then one TV in our home and hundreds of channels to select, so that everyone could enjoy their own channels as they like.

Coming back to blogging eventually there would be millions of blogs in this country just like we have TV set now. The government do not want the society to miss the ICT revolution so the Internet became one of the tool for that. With the Internet and now with Broadband blogging came into being. Before blogging the venue for the dissemination of ideas and information to the society were limited. Only the Newspaper, the Radio and TV could do that but with blogging the Pandora box on the freedom of expression is open wide. With a computer you could created your own 'Newspaper' in the Internet by way of blogging. Since ideas and information are important for an informed society in a democratic country, in a way bloggers are playing a very important role in keeping the society informed. An informed society means a knowledgeable society, which is a very important component in a democracy. It is also good for the authority in power, for it provides sort of feedback which would in a way help in good governance.

With this new found freedom of expression comes responsibility, so to bloggers do be responsible of what you blog. Blogging is still in its infancy and like any new media it would takes time to matured.. Happy Blogging.[Atuk mean Grandpa]