Lecturer shares knowledge with people through his blog

BERNAMA - Thursday, February 23, 2012

KUALA LUMPUR, (Bernama) - While bloggers in the country have been writing on numerous contemporary issues, one blogger derives satisfaction by blogging to impart knowledge.

Khirulnizam Abd Rahman, who has been blogging under Kerul.net, is convinced that blogs are an important medium to disseminate knowledge and expertise. 

The e-commerce lecturer at Kolej Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Selangor''s Science and Information Technology faculty has been blogging since 2005, first using the Yahoo 360 domain before moving to the Blogspot domain (Kerul.Blogspot) in 2008.

 Khirulnizam, 36, said he started writing blogs as he had a calling for writing and disseminating knowledge on the internet. "I believe that my role as a lecturer is not limited to disseminating knowledge within the lecture room but also to the wider audience, the society.

"I also observed that the information available on the internet is all in English, and deep inside my heart I had a desire to relay knowledge in Malay," he told this writer when met at the university college in Bangi recently.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 

Khirulnizam, who has a master’s degree in information technology from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, observed that most knowledge-sharing blogs were in English.

"If you look at my blog (Kerul.Net), there are many articles in English, but I have also created a space for articles in the Malay language, such as the guide to create websites using the open Content Management Source (CMS) Joomla.

"After the Malay articles appeared on the internet, there was overwhelmingly positive feedback for them," he said. Khirulnizam, who started lecturing with the same institution in year 2000, is thankful for his employers, who encourage their academic staff to share their knowledge not only with undergraduates but also with society, through mediums like blogs. 

"My observation is that those in our society with knowledge are unwilling to share what they know, and to me this is something not right because knowledge is not exclusive to anyone but something to be shared by all," he said.