Thursday, November 6, 2008

Classifications of Blogs

There are several different types of blogs from those of the personal diary type to those intended to offer the public more information, or more accurate information, than that made available by typical news outlets (Holetzy, 2008).

Margaret Simons mention few types of blogs are Digest blog, Exhibition blogs, News blog, etc. Blogs are categorized based on the content enabling for readers to make it easier for them to search what blogs that may interest them. Blogs are class are categorized according to Technorati (2008):
  • Technology
  • Polictics
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Lifestyle
  • Entertainment


Blogging Community

A blogging community is a collective community of all blogs connected with one another virtually by sharing a common interest. In order for bloggers to connect with other bloggers, they need to link their page to other bloggers page on the side bar. This bloggers interact via online only.

One example of a blogging community is Nuffnang. Nuffnang is Asia's first blog advertising company. Nuffnang aims at allowing advertisers such as Citibank, Nokia, Nike, Air Asia, etc. to serve graphic or video based advertisements onto the thousands of local blogs that are signed up with Nuffnang.








References:

Holetzky S 2008, What are some different types of blogs, viewed 6 November 2008, <http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-some-different-types-of-blogs.htm>

Wikipedia 2008, Blog, viewed 6 N0vember 2008, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog>

ABC National Radio 2008, A taxonomy of Blogs, viewed 6 November 2008, <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript>

Technorati 2008, Blog Directory, viewed 6 November 2008, <http://technorati.com/blogs/directory>

Nuffnang 2008, About Us, viewed 6 November 2008, <http://www.nuffnang.com.my/about-us>

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