Class Me

There are many various form of blogs and can be categorized according to different aspects such as topic and blog type. For example, under the category of topic, there are personal blogs which was predominant when blog first appeared (Smich, 2010), then eventually came political, business, topical, literary and health blogs just to name a few (Cho, 2004). On the other hand, under the aspect of blog types would include vlog; a video blog, spam blog; a spam based blog, photoblog or phlog; a blog made mostly of photos, j-blog; blog by a journalist, and Multiblog; a conversational blog between two or more people (wiki, 2010).

In ‘The Taxonomy of Blogs’ by Simons (2008), she mentions there are nine kinds of blog. Namely, there are pamphleteering blog, the diary, digest blog, advocacy blog, popular mechanics blog, exhibition blog, gatewatcher blog, advertisement blog and news blog. In comparison to other sources I have found regarding groupings of blogs, I have found some similarities. For instance, ‘diary blog’ Simons (2008) and ‘personal blog’ (Cho, 2004) are blogs whereby users put up posts of personal rants, events, thoughts and activities. Next, ‘exhibition blog’ (Simons, 2008) are blogs created by those in arts and music, like photographers, artistes and writers with desire to share their creation online. ‘Exhibition blog’ can be compared to a photoblog. From my observation, Cho’s method of classification is limited to the subject matter of blogs. Meanwhile, Simons’s method is more comprehensive and takes in not just subject matter but accounts of other elements such as the format, style and audience.


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References:

Cho A 2004, The Different Kinds of Blogs, University of British Columbia, viewed 26 September 2010, <http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr500/05-06-wt1/www/A_Cho/kinds.htm>.

Simons M 2008, ‘A taxonomy of blogs’, The Media Report, ABC Radio National Transcripts, viewed 26 September 2010, <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript>.

Smich M 2010, Discussing various Blog types, Myhosting, viewed 26 September 2010, <http://myhosting.com/blog/2010/04/discussing-blog-types/>.

Wikipedia 2010, Glossary of blogging, viewed 26 September 2010, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_blogging_terms>.