Blogs as we know or think we know has many classifications of it's kind. It is even hard to say whether the topic, style, format, audience will classify a blog, because sometimes we need to look at a few angles in order to classify them. According to Margaret Simon during her interview with the media report (2008) There are many kinds of blogs around. These are her categorization and my views of blogs.
Pamphleteering blog- with a single or a few author's having a point of view or having a stand on a point on current events, on politics, sometimes broader events such as a politic blog.
Advocacy blog- This characteristic is almost like pamphleteering blog but the distinction of it is usually by a vested interest group, either an advocacy group, a commercial organization, or sometimes a political party that is arguing or having a point of view like the alternative media blogs such as the Lim Kit Siang blog: http://blog.limkitsiang.com
Digest blog- These blogs also sometimes a directory blog summarise or collect materials from other other media.Sometimes these blogs include a little commentary, but most of the time, they're just collecting material on a single topics so that you can actually click on the links and go elsewhere for example of blogs http://pbd.blogspot.com, http://pbd.blogspot.com, http://www.prosphotos.com, http://www.prosphotos.com
The popular Mechanics blog- also a how-to and reviews blog that educates the audiences on cooking, gardening, cleaning, repairing, etc. Example a famous chef by the name of Jamie Oliver educating his audiences on how to cook dishes in the simplest way: http://www.jamieoliver.com,
Gatewatcher blog- also known as a media watchdog blogs that keeps an eye on the online media
The dairy-Very popular among audiences to keep their daily logs, pictures and rambles about their life http://xiaxue.blogspot.com
The advertisement-These blogs mainly broadcast advertisement for sponsors eg: http://www.ibelieveinadv.com
The News blog-An alternative to print media, people are turning to news blogs for news and The Star newspaper have came out with their website to host daily news http://thestar.com.my
The exhibition blog- usually by arts, crafts, or people who want to exhibit their work categorize under this heading a famous example http://www.flickr.com, http://lookbook.nu/#more, http://www.stevemccurry.com/main.php
As we speak, more and more organizations are creating different characteristics blog to out-do each other. For example http://www.tumblr.com also known as a tumblelog or Microblogging. it differs from traditional blog whereby its content is much smaller, in both actual size and aggregate file size. A tumble log entry could consist of nothing but a short sentence fragment, or an image or embedded video.
An Example of Tumblr Dashboard.
User's are allowed to post up text, videos, photo's, quotes, links, audio, chat from their computers and even on their smart phones! With technology these days, who knows what we're able to do next?
References
- Word Press,Types of blogs, Viewed 28th September 2010, http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs
- SlideShare 2010, 5 Types of blogs,Viewed 28th September 2010, http://www.slideshare.net/rlewis1686/5-types-of-blogs
- Melissa, S 2010, Different types of blogs, Viewed 28th September 2010, http://myhosting.com/blog/2010/04/types-blogs-2
- Google, Definitions of Tumblelog on the web, Viewed 29th September 2010, http://www.google.com.my/search?hl=en&biw=1272&bih=580&defl=en&q=define:Tumblelog&sa=X&ei=TFKkTIfpNIb0cf7MiaII&ved=0CBQQkAE
- The Media Report 2008, A taxonomy of blogs, Viewed 29th September 2010, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript
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