Classification of Blogs

As the size of the blogosphere is growing year by year, we have notice that bloggers started to post up variety of post such as tutorials, political views and so on. However, the blogs nowadays have been classified into different category.

According to the Australian author and media analyst, Margaret Simons, she has classified blogs into total 9 types.

-Pamphleteering Blog: an individual or a group of individuals arguing, discussing or expressing a viewpoint on politics or border events.

-Digest Blog: point to, summarize or collects material from elsewhere, usually in the mainstream media

-Advocacy Blog: similar to pamphleteering blog but usually by a vested interest group or an advocacy group

-Popular Mechanics Blog: where show tutorials or guidance to those who are interest in certain topic

-Exhibition Blog: usually maintained by craftspeople, artists, writers who want to show their extraordinary work to wider audiences.

-Gatewatcher Blog: where allow the specialists, experts and others with particular knowledge of public events to watch and to critique with the reports.

-Diary: where an individual posting pictures, daily life details and so on, as we known as personal blog

-Advertisement: created by companies to promote their services or products.

-News Blog: where blogs to break news, bloggers try and give public news.

However, Haskins (2007) mentioned that the blogs classified into four different types, Table as below:

(Source: growchangelearn.blogspot.com)

I personally think that, there is no any good or bad classification that can be judge. Here the example, the blogger travel around introducing places and foods. I may classify it as food blog but you may classify it as a travel blog. I think it is your choice that how do you classify the blogs as different people have their own perception.

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Referencing:

1. Haskins, T 2007, Different Motivation of Blogging, Growing Changing Learning Creating, viewed on 22 August 2011, http://growchangelearn.blogspot.com/2007/03/different-motivations-for-blogging.html

2. Simons, M 2008, Toward a Taxonomy of Blog, Australian Policy Online, viewed on 22 August 2011, http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-0

3. Funnell, A 2008, A Taxonomy of Blog, The Media Report, viewed on 22 August 2011, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript

4. Oech, RV 2007, A Taxonomy of Blogs, Creative Think, viewed on 22 August 2011, http://blog.creativethink.com/2007/03/a_taxonomy_of_b.html