Monday, April 19, 2010

Classification of blogs

Blogs are created with the mixture of various styles and people often find it hard to see what interest them as everything is mixed up together. Contents in a blog are the most important elements in classifying a blog (Miller & Shepherd, 2004). However, it is very hard to classify blogs based on its contents as contents on the blogs are not always the same.

Blogs nowadays being classified based on few genres.
(a) Subject Matter
Personal Blog
(Source: Xia Xue 2010)

Political Blog
(Source: Anwar Ibrahim 2010)

Fashion Blog
(Source: Shirts4Real 2008)

(b) Device
Moblog (Mobile Blogging)
Mobile phones act as another device to publish blog entries.
(Source: Google 2010)

(c) Media Type
Sketch Blog
A blog consists of images, especially sketches and other drawings.
(Source: Rob-Sheridan 2010)

(d) Status of publisher
Business Blog
A blog to promotes the company itself.
(Source: Smart Usaha 2010)

According to Marget Simons (2008), blogs are classified into 9 categories which are pamphlettering blogs, digest blogs, advocacy blogs, popular mechanics blogs, exhibition blogs, gatewatcher blogs, diary blogs, advertisement blogs and news blogs. The diary blogs and advertisement blogs are similar to the subject matter category. Diary blogs and personal blogs are those blogs that intended for the friends and family of individuals. They contain news, photos and information of a largerly personal kind. As for the advertisement blogs, companies are paying established bloggers undisclosed kickbacks to booths their products.

Pamphlettering Blog
A blog where individual or groups of people argue a case.
(Source: Catalaxy 2010)


Digest Blog
These act primarily as guides and summaries to things you can access else where.
(Source: FairGoFairFax 2008)


Exhibition Blog
Blogs maintained by writers, craftspeople, artists and artisans of many kind in which they bring their creations to a wider audience, and sometimes discuss their methods and thought processes.
(Source: AroundtheWorldIn20Quilts 2010)


In my opinion, I prefer to classify blogs by using subject matter. This method makes it easier for people to go to a particular blogs to look for the exact information that they want as this classified blogs withe their genre. For example, we just need to type 'fashion blogs' in Google search and a list of the fashion blogs will appeared in the screen. Besides that, this classification of blogs also make it easier for those bloggers to reach out to their targeted audience.



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