‘Hot fever of Blog’ gives an opportunity for everyone to write blogs with different purposes. Therefore, Wikipedia has classified types of blog as below:
By Purpose:
■ Personal Blog (traditional blog)
■ Corporate and organization Blog (supported by WordPress.com)
■ Filter Blog (supported by Chopin, K, 2007)
By genre:
■ Travel blogs
■ Education blogs
■ Fashion blogs
■ Political blogs (supported by WordPress.com)
By media type:
■ Vlog (Video Log) – It contained videos
■ Linklog (Hyperlinks Blogging) – A blog that consist of links
■ Sketchblog – It include portfolio of sketches
■ Photoblog – It comprises photos
■ Thumblelog – It has shorter posts and mixed media.
By device:
■ Moblog (Mobile Blogging) – It is written by a mobile phone.
According to Margaret Simon (2008), there are nine different types of blog that will be discussed shortly.
1. Pamphleteering blog: It contained numerous of issue together with arguments, comments and opinions inside of it. Usually, it created by individual or organization.
2. Digest blog: It provides summary of issue raised where readers would likely to comment, critics and explore about it.
3. Advocacy blog: This is intentionally pushing some ideas or point of view toward a particular issue. It usually done by political group, commercial party, etc.
4. Popular Mechanics blog: This kind of blogs is providing readers about mechanic process to do something such as photography, gardening, etc.
5. Exhibition blog: It might be recognized as vanity publishing. It usually done by craftspeople, artist, and writers to bring them to the greater popularity and audience.
6. Gatewatcher blog: Blogs that controlled by small group of experts. These people are watching over function of media be done in job.
7. Diary blog: People are free to express their own stuff in this blog. It can be categorized as personal blog.
8. Advertisement blog: This blog made for advertisement sake which many companies use blog to engage their target market.
9. News blog: It is very important blog as it gives people news. It has significant part as it gives contribution of journalism.
As blog has tremendous growth in size, there is limited of knowledgeable bloggers regarding to what is an appropriate format, topic and style should be written in a blog. It caused complexity to categorized blogs.
In my opinion, as overall types divided, there is an overlap between one type and another. It would be the audiences, the topics, and even the purpose of the blog itself. Format and type dependent each other to be written. For example is political blog, then all format will be in the formal way presented such as word chosen, depth discussion about topics, etc.
References:
Chopin, K 2007. Finding Communities: alternative viewpoints through weblogs and tagging, viewed 17 April 2010, http://www.emeraldinsight.com.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/Insight/viewPDF.jsp?contentType=Article&Filename=html/Output/Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Pdf/2780640404.pdf
Simons, M 2008. A Taxonomy of Blogs, viewed 15 April 2010, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript
Wikipedia 2010, Blog, viewed 16 April 2010, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog#Types
WordPress.com 2010, Types of Blogs, viewed 16 April 2010, http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
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