Phenomenon ll

Classification of blogs

Blogs do not take in one encoded form as blogs are like many other in the World Wide Web as they are quite complicated. According to Wikipedia.org (2008), there are different types of blogs:

1. Personal blogs
2. Corporate blogs
3. Question blogging
4. By Media type
5. By Device
6. By Genre
   

Australian media Analyst Magaret Simon had classified the type of blogs in the transcript interview with ABC.Net.Au (2008). These are the 9 types of list she classified as blog:

1. Pamphleteering blog
2. Digest blog
3. Advocacy blog
4. Popular Mechanics blog
5. Exhibition blog
6. Gatewatcher blog
   
7. Diary blog
8. Advertisement blog
   
9. News blog

In my opinion, I will prefer more to Wikipedia.org(2008) as in the way how they classified their blogs because they not only show the term of content but they do defined the content and make it more understanding. Compare to Simon classification, is more to Australian context which is more difficult for me to understand.

This is how Technorati .com(2008) classified their blog. Based on the site of Technorati.com (2008), they divided their site into six major categories of blogs, they are:

1. Blogs pertaining to entertainment
2. Business
3. Technology
   
4. Politics
5. Lifestyle
6. Sport

The six major categories were made up with more than 40 sub-categories, for example, there are 6 sub-categories under the entertainment category:

1. Celebrity and Gossip
2. Gaming
   
3. Movies and Film
4. Music
5. Television
6. Theater

Community Blogging

Below are the three types of blogging communities:-

Single blog/Blogger Centric Community- Community that occurs around the primary blogger

Central Connecting Topic Community- Community that develops from common passion and interest

Boundaried Community- Community that gathers by registered members of a specific organization