Blogs, like many other things on the World Wide Web, are multifaceted. The types of blogs vary and are distinctive as the people who decide to publish them. According to Wikipedia.Org (2008), there are namely 6 types of blogs:
1. Personal Blogs
2. Corporate Blogs
3. Question Blogging
4. By Media Type
5. By Device
6. By Genre
On the other hand, Australian media analyst Margeret Simons, in a transcript interview with ABC.Net.Au (2008) listed 9 types of online websites that she classifies as blogs: —
1. Pamphleteering Blog
2. Digest Blog
3. Advocacy Blog
4. Popular Mechanics Blog
5. Exhibition Blog
6. Gatewatcher Blog
7. Diary Blog8. Advertisement Blog
9. News Blog
The difference between how Wikipedia.Org and Simons classify blogs is very different. As Wikipedia.Org (2008) classifies blogs in terms of its content and how it is translated to the audience, Simons (2008) classifies these online websites as blogs only by the content it provides in the Australian context. Personally, I prefer the classification made by Wikipedia.Org as it is easier to identify compared to Simons’ Australian based classification.
The Blogging Community
It is not a surprise for people with similar interests to form a union. Likewise, an online or virtual community (blogging community) can be classified as a group of people wth common interest and practices who communicate…in an organized way using the Internet… through a common location or mechanism (Averweg & Leaning, 2007).
As there are many book clubs so are there many blogging communities. According to White (2006), there are three specific types of blogging communities:-
1. Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community –
Community that occurs around the primary blogger
2. Central Connecting Topic Community –
Community that develops from common passion and interest
3. Boundaried Community –
Community that gathers by registered members of a specific organization
I will be long into the Boundaried Community, where it connects various blogs and bloggers to other bloggers. To name a few Boundaried Community on the Internet, there are MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog and BeanRocket Blogging.
MyBlogLog ‘enables readers of web pages to leave information about themselves, building a social network among fans of such things as… MySpace pages, commercial Web publications, or personal blogs’ (Hardy 2007).
I would create a blogging community via my blog by providing a chat box and numerous links to other credible blogs on the sidebar.
References
Averweg, UR & Leaning, M 2007, Are ‘Virtual Communities’ Virtual?, The Southern Africa Institute of Management Services, viewed on 12 November 2008,
<http://www.mtmassociation.org.za/Are%20Virtual%20Communities%20Virtual.pdf>
‘A taxonomy of blogs’ 2008, ABC.Net.Au, viewed on 12 November 2008, <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript>
‘Blog’ 2008, Wikipedia.Org, viewed on 12 November 2008, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs>
Hardy, Q 2007, ‘Yahoo! Snaps Up Mybloglog.com’, Forbes.com, viewed on 12 November 2008, < <http://www.forbes.com/markets/commodities/2007/01/09/yahoo-mybloglog-web-tech-media-cx_0109ces-blog.html>.
White, N 2006, ‘Blogs and Community – launching a new paradigm for online community?’, The Knowledge Tree, edn 11, viewed on 12 November 2008, <http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>
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