Talking about blogs, it reminds me of a strong wave of Vietnamese blogs which provides readers with unofficial streams of information. Many sensitive issues that mainstream media can not cover are available in wide ranges of blogs. Each entry of hot issue may raise unpredictablly social affects.
Just have a look at VangAnh blog as an example. It was created in Yahoo 360 which is the most popular type of blogs in Vietnam because many people use yahoo mail and yahoo messenger. Its name is Thong Tan Xa Vang Anh, which means Vang Anh News Agency. This blogger ambitiously wants it to be an unofficial news agency as he called it. And the fact is that, it becomes very famous now together with DieuCay blog (by a freelance Vietnamese journalist), Osin blog (by a famous reporter), or TrangHa blog (a famous reporter and writer with her blog pageview is now more than 5 millions).
Built on 20 October, 2007, VangAnh blog currently has 234 postings which mostly about political situations in Vietnam. It first started with a scandal of a young actress in Hanoi last year. She played Vang Anh, the main teenage character in a famous sitcom Vang Anh's Diary. She had been a good mirror for school students before her sex video leaked on internet. It was really a huge shock for everyone. "Vang Anh" used to be one of the most popular keyword on google search engine at that time. Covering this story and being named after it, Vang Anh blog is expected to get as many pageview as possible. And somehow it's successful.
One of the key of success is that VangAnh blog has made efforts in collecting news, pictures, information and videos and focused on political issues. However, 40 tags in his blog are not effective enough like what he highlights on the right-hand side panel with various issues such as Hoang Sa and Truong Sa islands, Olympic relay in Vietnam, and police corruption, etc. Blogrolls on the left-hand side are other links.
There are a lot of comments in VangAnh blog. Each posting gets around 50 comments depending on readers' interest and blogger's effort. Readers are from various regions in the world. For his latest entry, there are 172,526 pageviews which are respectively from Vietnam, the US, France, Australia, Germany, Singapore, Canada, China, the UK, and Korea, etc. It gets 70 c0mments.
One more thing to win pageview is that relevant and hot links are placed under each posting so that readers can easily follow. This is a very effective way which has been applied to all mainstream websites.
The latest posting of VangAnh blog is about a protest in front of the Government house. It reveals the protest with lots of images and videos which have never appeared in mainstream media. It is updated quickly.
Blogs in Vietnam are not under control now. However, there appears new type of yahoo blog which is yahoo plus for Vietnamese bloggers with Vietnamese interface. Only some bloggers have shifted to yahoo plus, because almost everyone does not want to put himself under any control.
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