Classification of blogs & examples of blogging communities

Classification of Blogs

There are hundred million of blogs out there, but in general most of the blogs write about entertainment, personal, politics, and fashion. According to Wikipedia (2008), there are many different types of blogs, differing not only in the type of content, but also the way of how the content is deliver or written. Below are examples and different types of blogs in Malaysia:

By Blogs’Genre:
· Personal Blogs: Kennysia.com, Alex Allied
· Entertainment Blogs: Yasmin The Story Teller, Afdlin Shauki
· Political Blogs: JeffOoi.com Screenshot , Lim Kit Siang
· Technology Blogs: SapiensBryan.com, LiewCF.com

By Media Types:
· Vlog (video blog): A blog comprising videos.
· Linklog( link blog): A blog comprising link.
· Sketchblog: A site containing a set of sketch.
· Tumbleblog: Blogs with shoter post and mixed media types.
· Photoblogs: Blogs that includes photo.

By Device:
· Moblog (mobile phone blog): Blogs written and composed by mobile devices, for instance: mobile phone and PDA, are considered as moblog.

Example of Moblog (Sean Gardinier, use moblog to share his personal adventures and educational technology views.)

By Status of Publisher:
· Corporate Blogs: A blog consists of business purposes. It can be used internally in a corporation.

However, there are many blogs combine different topics, styles and format. Firstly, I will look at the content of the blogs in order to identify topics that are suitable for me. Other than that, the blogging styles of the author are important to me as well.

Blogging Communities

What is a blogging community? Generally, people use it to interact and share their interest among the community. Besides, it connects and link the bloggers together. There are a few popular blogging communities, for instances, Friendster, Facebook and Blogspot. These blogging communities have become a new method to interact with people. One of the methods that they use to create the connection among the bloggers is, they make use of chat box to let people express their view and communicate with other bloggers.

Example of Facebook

Example of Friendster

Trend in Blogging Communities

Currently, one of the trends in blogging communities is many of celebrities start to become bloggers. That is, Colbie Marie Caillat, a American pop singer-songwriter. Her popularity was built up based on her song “Bubbly” that she uploaded on her MySpace profile.

Colbie Marie Caillat Myspace (a celebrity who used blogging commuities, Myspace to build up her popularity, now she is a one of the famous pop singer-songwriter.)

Reference List: Wikipedia 2008, ‘Blog’, viewed 5 May 2008,< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog>.