The growth of the cyber world contributed to the increase of the number of bloggers and blogging in the world. Hence, blogs today are classified into various genres (Belardo, M 2010) such as:
Collaborative Blogs: A blog constructed with multiple links or with multiple authors in support of a certain thesis.
How To/ Tutorial Blogs: Useful informative blogs for the purpose to guide and teach others on a certain subject.
Travel & Culture Blogs: Similar to advertising but promotes a certain location while providing special offers to travel while enabling people to share their travelling experiences.
Fashion & Lifestyle Blog: A creativity sense in dressing in accordance to the latest styles and trends.
Personal Blogs: The most practiced blog among the society mainly teenagers expressing daily routines, hobbies, interesting events and more.
These blogs can comprise multiple topics relating and depending to its subject matter such as politics, fashion, history and law. Blogs today are not only being posted via desktop but also with the aid of mobile devices which gave the term ‘moblog’.
The information projected is also spread with various media types with the help of vlogs, linklogs, sketchlogs, tumblelogs and more where it is in a video format or drawings which are more interesting. Business and corporate blogs also have status in terms of publishment.
According to Margaret Simons (2008), a prominent Australian blogger, Simons came up with nine types of blog which is:
- Pamphleteering blogs
- Digest Blog
- Advocacy blog
- Popular Mechanics blog
- Exhibition Blog
- Gatewatcher Blog
- Diary
- Advertisement
- News Blog
Blogs today are difficult to classify as they fall upon more than a single genre. As a result, we are able to understand why Simons had created these blog classifications. Although its field is vast detailed and wider compared to the various classifications, it is quite similar. The Diary blog for instance is similar to personal blogging and the pamphleteering blog is similar to collaborating blog. I find these classifications quite alike but the only difference is Simons touched more into a detailed group of categorization.
Referencing:
- 1. Belardo, M 2010, The 5 Types of Blogs | Which One Suits You Best?, Ink Rebels, viewed 3rd May 2011, < http://www.inkrebels.com/insp/the-5-types-of-blogs-which-one-suits-you-best/>
- 2. Simons, M 2008, Towards a taxonomy of blogs, Australian Policy Online, viewed 3rd May 2011, < http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-0>
- 3. The Media Report 2008, A taxonomy of blogs, viewed 3rd May 2011, < http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript)>
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