"The Emerging Power of Blogs and blogging in alternative news". What is your opinion on this? Share some of your favourite blogs that provides alternative news about your country.

Actually, Blog is not a "HOT" thing at this time like 1, 2 years ago, as the "Popular media" - Forum, now we are waiting the new one.
7 years ago, people love the forum, we can see many kinds of forum were created with only about 100 members or evens 10 members.
In fact, to creat 1 forum is easy for whom worked with website before, but develope the forum is difficult. Like now, the forum still alive is a biggest forums.
Blog is started about 4 years ago, I can say I was one of the first people used blog in my country, I used yahoo 360, but after 4 years, it's still a BETA version (I recommend people not using Yahoo).
Blog is a new thing at that time, every one can creat his/her own blog easily.
First, people just think it is a diary "online"
Later on, when people start think about many people viewing the entries, the number of comments (by view the Pageviews), they becomes famous.
The topic maybe about sports, music, politics...
And the important, no one knows who is him/her! (if he/she doesn't want to show)
Blog has a perfect things to do as a news page:
We can add video, music, photos. We can creat entries as much as we can, they have tag or search for people want to search an article in blog.
And it can be blogged anywhere, anytime with the computer and internet (faster than newspaper)
RSS - for others people keep updating the blog.
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Some famous blog in my country - Vietnam:
http://360.yahoo.com/profile-gx754tEleqXQBMAVioOKq_Zl
Tac Ke Blog - The most famous blog in 360 Yahoo blog, he (she) keep updating fastest, the scandal about all things or some famous people "can not touch".
Because of too famous (the page views reach till 20.000.000 views/6 months), so it's dead (because many people feeds back not good - automatic yahoo del the blog), now he still keep updating by many blogs).
http://360.yahoo.com/profile-7q8mn8Awda6wUB.UAhO0o6MgXOc-?cq=1
BLV Anh Ngoc - the blog of the famous commentator about football in Vietnam. He is the best commentator so a lot of people views that blog.
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Actually, we have a lot of famous bloggers, but Yahoo deletes allmost (Yahoo works not good also not Fair). Now people get tired about that. The problem is other blogs is not popular in Vietnam.