Classifications of blogs and its communities

Blogs can be classified to various types of genre depending on the topic or subject that a blogger is discussing. Various types of genre as stated by (Technocrati 2008) are lifestyle, sports, business, entertainment, politics and technology. As topics and issues may vary, there are many other genre type that other blogs may fall into.

For example, a fashion community called StyleMob has created a place where people gather to voice out their ideas and opinions about fashion. What makes this site interesting is that various people with the same passion in fashion can interact with each other by posting their fresh ideas on how to dress up or where to get the cheapest bargain in clothing.



What makes a community in a blog? According to (White 2006), the term ‘online community’ implied a community who interacted online within some bounded set of technologies.

Observed by (Miller and Shepherd 2004), “relationship development and social control are primarily external, functions that use self-disclosure to build connections with others. These second two dimensions of blog disclosure support the second omnipresent theme, community building”.

By exchanging comments or opinions, a community that shares the same passion will grow into a larger and closer community. Any awesome ideas or topics that you want to share? Start a blog and invite people to be a part of that community!

White, N 2006, Blogs and Community – launching a new paradigm for online community, viewed 3 November 2008 < http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>
Miller.C and Sheperd,D 2004, Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog, viewed 3 November 2008 < http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/blogging_as_social_action_a_genre_analysis_of_the_weblog.html>
Blog Directory, Technorati Media, viewed 3 November 2008, <http://technorati.com/blogs/directory/>.

Blogs: A current trend?

Is blog or web log the ‘in’ thing for most people to communicate around the world? A search engine for blogs, Technocrati stated that there are 112.8 million blogs created up to date with over 1.6 million posts per day. Imagine if it’s per minute or per hour!

Blogs are considered as online diaries where different people with different interpretation write about everything from politics, education to fashion! Everything under the sun! The trend of having a blog is so rampant and has spread out all over the world. These writers who writes these ‘blogs’ are called bloggers. What benefits does it offer to these bloggers? According to Jackson et al (2007), benefits to users were social as well as informational, and that connecting with their community was an important value sought by all types of users.

Different types of ‘blogs’ can be found are vlog (video-blog), moblog (mobile-blog)sketchblog (sketches blog), photoblog (photo-blog) just to name a few .These various types of blogs will suit to the different type of bloggers and their purpose of blogging. (Motive Glossary, 2008) There are also personal blogs as well as corporate blogs where it develops communication skills and business opportunities between people everywhere. (Wikipedia, 2008

Motive Glossary 2008 ‘The Motive Web Design Glossary’ , viewed 3 November 2008, <http://www.motive.co.nz/glossary/blogs.php#blogosphere>

Jackson. A, Yates.J, Orlikowski. W, 2007 "Corporate Blogging: Building community through persistent digital talk," hicss,pp.80, 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'07), viewed 3 November 2008, < http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/HICSS.2007.155>

Wikipedia 2008, Blog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs> viewed 3 November 2008

Curiosity defined

Curiosity kills the cat? Well in this blog, it unravels various interpretation and understanding about the trends and issues pertaining to media and publishing industry.

Not to worry (no cats were harmed during the production of this blog). Caters to the communication students as well general public who wants their fair share to knowledge of publishing literacy.