Blog Classification & Blogging Community

There are various classifications of blogs in the community. Blogs can appear in the form of subject matter, device, media type and status of publishers.

• Blogs by subject matter: Politic and fashion.

Politician in Malaysia-Lim Kit Siang's Blog




Fashion Blog

• Blogs by device: Moblog
  Moblog: A blog published directly to the web including photos, texts and media files (Phone Scoop n.d.)
  
  
  


• Blogs by media type: Vlog, linklog, sketchlog, and tumblelogs.

Vlog: Blog contains video that complemented with text, images and others meta information to provide the context of a video (iblog.at 2009).





Linklog: Blog make up of links (Belan, L 2009).






Sketchlog: Blogs consist of a series of sketches (iblog.at 2009).





Tumblelogs: Blogs that used mixed media such as images, links, videos, quotes and short blurbs(iblog.at 2009).

• Blogs by status of publishers: Business & Corporate blogs
  Business & Corporate blogs: Blogs used to form brand image, to communicate with clients (iblog.at 2009)

Blogs-Combination of Styles
Nowadays, blogs are mixed with styles and makes it difficult to signify unique types of blogs. Therefore, I will consider the topic, style, format and audience of a blog. Blogger has to make sure that the topic of their blog is interesting and the style used is appropriate in order to gain audience interest.

Rowse, D (2006) stated that blogger do not need a topic that everyone is searching, but just one that some people are searching as it can be beneficial even only a small amount of people interested in it. On contrary, Lenssen P (2006) also asserted that descriptive headlines, inverted pyramid, and accountability of sources are important styles of a good blog.

Blog Community
Blog community refers to a group of people with the same interest interacted online within limited set of technologies (White, N 2006). It can be built through bulletin boards, online forums, web based chat rooms, newsletter and online calendars (Kyrnin J 2009). Blog community can appear in the types of single blog centric community, central connecting centric community and boundaried community (White, N 2006).

For instance, LiveJournal is one of the famous blogging communities. It is the lead of personal publishing, community participation, and individual expression. It allows individuals to share common interests, meet new friends and express themselves (LiveJournal 2009).

References:

1. Belan, L 2009, So You Want to Blawg Do You?, viewed 12 June 2009, http://ezinearticles.com/?So-You-Want-to-Blawg-Do-You?&id=2230121

2. iblog.at 2009, How to Define Niche Blogs, viewed 12 June 2009, http://iblog.at/ihomebusresources/2009/04/21/how-to-define-niche-blogs/

3. Kyrnin, J 2009, Building Online Communities, viewed 12 June 2009, http://webdesign.about.com/cs/communityonline/a/aa112398.htm

4. Lenssen, P 2006, Good Blog Writing Style, viewed 12 June 2009, http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-10-11-n47.html

5. LiveJournal 2009, LiveJournal represents social media without borders, viewed 12 June 2009, http://www.livejournalinc.com/index.php

6. Phone Scoop n.d., Moblog, viewed 12 June 2009, http://www.phonescoop.com/glossary/term.php?gid=207

7. Rowse, D 2006, How to Choose a Niche Topic for your Blog, viewed 12 June 2009, http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/15/how-to-choose-a-niche-topic-for-your-blog/

8. White, N 2006, Blogs and Community-launching a new paradigm for online community?, viewed 12 June 2009, < http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community