Classification of Blog and Blogging Communities

Blogs are getting more difficult to classify into variety of types and subject. Generally, there are six major categories of blogs (Technorate.com, 2008).
They are:
1. Lifestyle
2. Politics
3. Business
4. Technology
5. Entertainment
6. Sports

According to Wikipedia (2008), there are 5 categories of blogs:
1. Personal blog: individual ongoing diary or commentary
2. Corporate blog: business, marketing, branding or public relations purposes
3. Blogs by Genres: focus on particular subject, example: fashion, travel, food, and etc.
4. Blog Media type: vlog, linklog, sketchblog , photoblog, tumblelogs.
5. Blog By Device: moblog
By media
1. Vblog ( Video Blog, example Youtube)
2. Linkblog ( Collection of links or URLs, example Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog)
3. Spblog ( Spam blog, example thespamweblog)
4. Sketchblog ( Collection of sketches/ drawings, example Kristen's Sketch-blog)
5. Photoblog ( Collection of photos, example msnbc photoblog)
6. Podcast blog( Collection of audio recording especially in MP3 format, example podcasting tools resource for podcasting)

Blogs differentiation by type of publisher
1. Business blog (example American Business blog)
2. Corporate blog
To identify a unique blog, the majority of the type of post or entries has to be taken into account. Most people have a look at the topic, style, or format. For example Lonely girl15 from Vblog from the format video. Photoblog is where the authors would use it as a medium to posts. In my opinion, a bog that is updated primarily from a mobile device, and generally( but not always) while the author is on the road or traveling. Moblogs are usually photo and video rich, rather than text intensive. Moblogs are generally run from a phone, but they can also be run from a laptop or web- enabled PDA; the definign element of a moblog is that it is used to "blog away from the desk."


Blogging Communities
A Blogging community is formed by people with similar interests joining together to discuss further about their interest. The methods are by the tagging, comments and chat box in blogs bloggers interact with each other. MyBloglog is an example of a blog community.

It is stated that blogs is a social networking system which allow people to connect to each others. They also gain information on them and their blogs. It is also a network where blog publishers are able to access information they seek on their readers. Kirkpatrick (2006)


Reference list:

Blog directory, 2008, Technorati, viewed on 5th June 2009 at http://technorati.com/blogs/directory

Funnell, A & Davies, A 2008, A taxanomy of blogs, The Media Report, access on 4 June 2009,

Kirkpatrick, M., 2006, MyBlogLog: Readers Network Around Their Favorite Blogs, TechCrunch , viewed on 5th June 2009 at http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/19/myboglog-readers-network-around-their-favorite-blogs/

Wikipedia 2009, Blog, access on 4 June 2009,