They Don't Blog Like They Used To No More.

One university professor says Malaysia and Indonesia have the highest number of bloggers. He's the university professor so I gotta believe what he says since people like that will tell you they've got data and statistics to back up what they're shouting about. Otherwise they wouldn't be university professors with a PhD. I haven't been doing much thinking along academic line but it must have been something in the coffee that got me to feel academic to come up with my own analysis why people in these two countries consider blogging a national pastime.

It's the politicians.

Yup, they are as good a source as any that can get people highly charged and motivated to blog about because blog is, in many ways, a form of venting your anger, frustration and complaints to an intelligent being who talks back at you known as PCs.

Bloggers need politicians the way fish need water to live. Without politicians, blogging world would be as silent as hell left behind by its occupants after having served their terms of punishment to be inducted to the lowest section of heaven. Which is why I believe, blogging activities in Malaysia have increased tremendously over the last few weeks after the election. It's the politicians. They are still at it, playing politics, saying one thing today and another tomorrow. Saying stupid things and making stupid policies. All these are deliberately done with bloggers in mind - to feed bloggers with enough materials to write about. In the end, nobody cares about where the country is going because what could be more important than blogging?

Which is why you don' get all that many bloggers in developed countries like Norway or Sweden. They blog but not the kinda blog you find here. And they don't spend all that much time blogging because they gotta keep busy making things, designing things, creating things, manufacturing things, or volunteering. We volunteer too, like going to London to save Sufiah. Again, it's the politician who said this and it is as good as any to blog about. You know very well they are going to London to enjoy what's left of Spring and to shop.

I say, keep doing what you're doing, politicians. Let's turn the whole country into a blogging nation. That way we don't have to work so hard because no one seems to value hard work anymore anyway.

You can also arrive at the final analysis that the more politically unstable a country, the better it is for bloggers. Malaysia is fast become the number one blogger country and you know why given the current political situation. And the beauty is, no one is interested to bring this to a speedy end so we can get back to work.

So blog away, folk! It's good for the country.