Blog classification
According to Wikipedia (2009), blogs are classified as the followings:
- Personal
- Corporate
- Genre
- Media typeDevice
However, in A Taxanomy of Blogs (2008), Margeret Simons has classified online sites as blogs as the followings:
- Pamphleteering
- Digest
- Advocacy
- Popular mechanics
- Exhibition
- Gatewatcher
- The diary
- The advertisement
- News
In this case, I prefer the blogs classification by Wikipedia.org whereby blogs differing not only in the type of content, but also in the way that content is delivered or written. Alternatively, I personally classify blogs based on the topics, genre and styles.
I believe that every blogger wants a community around it no matter how ambitious or dedicated to his or her blog. Blogging communities build up around shared interest and communicating via blogs (Vinson 2006).
To build a community, you have to get people engaged around the principle of your content and then make it as easy for them to interact as possible. Three step of creating blog community are basic configuration, set theme and modules (White 2006).
An example of a blogging community is Livejournal, a dynamic community of individual and group journals.
References
ABC.net 2008, A Taxanomy of Blogs, viewed 1 June 2009, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript
Wikipedia.org 2009, Blogs, viewed 1 June 2009, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
Vinson, J 2006, Blogging and Communities, Blog.com, viewed 1 June 2009, http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2006/06/26/blogging_and_communities.html
White, N 2006, Blogs and Community – launching a new paradigm for online community?, The Knowledge Tree, viewed 1 June 2009, 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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