Unspun

Screenshots‘s Jeff Ooi reports that 64% of Malaysian bloggers are female. His results come from a pan-Asian poll that includes other countries but NOT Indonesia. Once again the fourth Most populous country get’s bypassed.

I wonder what the blog stats are in Indonesia. Anyone out there with any ballpark figures?

Jeff’s post below:

Do you know that over 74% of bloggers in Malaysia are below 25 years old, and about 64% of them are female?

Significantly, over 56% among them take to blogging because they want an opinion space for themselves.

Interestingly too, politician’s blogs scored low in popularity chart (14%) across Asia, except Malaysia!

The study, named ‘Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report‘,
was conducted online on Microsoft’s MSN portal, covering its seven
markets in Asia, namely Hong Kong, India, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore,
Taiwan, and Thailand. The sample size was over 25,000, whose feedback
was collated in August and September, and the data were analysed by a
market research firm, Harris Interactive.

The emerging, but compelling, trend is that about half of the
population online in Asia have a blog. They blog primarily to build
social connections and to claim an opinion space of their own, for the
freedom of self-expression.

Is a silent, mental revolution taking place right across Asia —
thanks to Internet and blogs? I shared my thoughts in my CNet Asia
blog, Lemak Lemang.