I'm back today with more interesting facts that you wanna know about blogs!
The following are the types of blogs according to Wikipedia (2007) :
a) Personal blogs: online diaries
b) Corporate blog: for business, public relations or marketing purposes
c) By genre: music, fashion, politics, food blogs etc.
d)By types of media: photos (photolog) , videos (vlog) etc.
e) By device: written by mobile device such as PDA (moblog)
However, Margaret Simons pointed out 9 different types of blogs in her interview with the ABC.net.au (2008).
a) Pamphleteering blog : authors giving points of views on issues eg. political.
b) Digest blog : summarise or collecting materials from elsewhere
c) Advocacy blog : similar to pamphleteering blog but usually by a vested interest group
d) Popular Mechanics blog : information on how to do certain things
e) Exhibition blog : vanity publishing where artists, writers and craftspeople post their work
f) Gatewatcher blog : blogs that keep an eye on the media
g) Diary blog : personal online journal
h) Advertisement blog : promotion of products by commercial companies
i) News blog : posts about breaking news
The classification of blogs between Wikipedia and Margaret Simons are different as Wikipedia classified blogs based on the format and also the contents. However, Simons classified the blogs based on the purpose and audience.
Types of blogging communities
There are 3 types of blogging communities:
a) Single blog/blogger centric community -
owned by one one owner/organisation and the central blogger controls the conversational topic.
b) Central connecting topic community -
communities are formed within people with the same interests.
c) Boundaried communities -
communities that gathered blogs and blogs readers in a single site such as Facebook and MySpace.
There are 3 interesting types of communties but I would just focus on Blogger centric community.
(http://www.malaysiabest.net/)
This is an example of a single blog own by one owner. The blogger, Mrs. Lillian, blogs about the recipes of food and share with the communities who are interested in cooking. As you can see from her blog and my blog here, there are few ways to build a blog community. For example, there are chat box and links to other site.
References
ABC.net.au 2008, A taxanomy of blogs (Online, accessed 7 June 2009).
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript
Lillian 2009, Best recipes, food and travel (Online, accessed 7 June 2009).
URL: http://www.malaysiabest.net
Wikipedia 2007, Types of blog (Online, accessed 7 June 2009).
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
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