Just about time too. Because today, StarNews Asia had a special about blogging and how it its revolutionising how people in Asia communicate with one another.

It started of by saying how blogging has profound impact whereby anyone from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad*, to a 60-year old woman from Hong Kong (this particular one), is blogging nowadays. Then goes on to say what in the world are these magic things called blogs: online journals where people write anything such as commentary on food, news, and politics. Yada yada yada 60 million blogs nowadays, bla bla, normal stuff we usually see on Wikipedia.

THEN, they interviewed someone from MICROSOFT (to agree on blogging’s prominence), and proceeded to give a shameless (and undeserving) plug to MSN Spaces!!! Then they said something about these “spaces” are like real estate of the Internet world.

Well, it is refreshing that for once we bloggers go on TV for something other than arrests or a lawsuit of some sort. But somehow, I thought the short commentary was rather thin and does not really attribute the real people responsible for the blogging boom: Blogger especially (their “3 steps” and idiot-proof WYSIWYG interface is genius, and had paved the way for other blogging platforms). MSN Spaces is a poor example!

Yes I do agree that blogging has considerably changed the world. Perhaps it was the time constraints, the report was after all done in under 10 minutes, and perhaps not enough resources or whatever, but I personally feel that the report could have been done much better.

It’s too I’m-a-thinly-veiled-shameless-advertising-for-Microsoft!

*His blog is down the last time I checked so I linked to the Wikipedia entry instead. I heard, it was the doings of the Israelis following his numerous anti-Israeli sentiments.