Classification of blogs and blogging communities

There are whole list of blog out on the internet for public to view and read. According to Wikipedia(2009), the way a person blogs would be different from other even they fall under the same category. Below are the types of blogs that available around the world:

Types of Blogs

Blogs by subject matter:

Politics Blogs
E.g. Jeffooi, Lim Kit Siang, Rocky's Bru

Food Blogs
E.g. masak-masak, Eat Drink KL, Chocoholic

Technology Blogs
E.g. Amanz.net, FriedBeef's Tech, Sapeinsbryan

Blogs by media type:

Vlog (Video blog): video blogging comprising video in their blogs but hardly in Malaysia
E.g. Ryanne

Sketchlog: blogs comprise series of sketch work by the bloggers
E.g. Sketch Blog of the Day, Mark's Sketchblog

Blogs by device:

Moblog: mobile phone or PDA that being used to compose blogs which includes text, video

Another Point of View of blogs classification

However, one of the prominent Australian blogger had give another point of view towards blogs classification. Simons (2008) had come out with nine different types of online sites for that classification . Below are her classification of blogs and brief explanation on each:

1. Pamphleteering Blogs: individual or groups expressing strong point of view which similar to political blogs.

E.g. Larvatus Prodeo

2. Digest Blogs: collected information from mainstream media or other blogs and provides links of single topic to another sites.


3. Advocacy Blogs: similar to pamphleteering but the group of people are from commercial organisation. They are actively approaching in educational manner point of view.

E.g. Telstra

4. Popular Mechanics Blog: By looking at the name of blog, this type of blog is relating to the information on how to accomplish matters using mechanics and how it worked. This type of blog are done enthusiastic by blogger on topic such as scuba diving, photography and so on.

E.g. Strobist

5. Exhibition Blog: Being mantained by people such as artists and writers to bring their work to broader audience. Most of the works are writing and poetry blogs.

6. Gatewatcher Blog: Small groups of of blogs that keep an eye on media that decide what needs public attention and not. The most popular that best known is run by specialist in public opinion polls

E.g. Possum Comitatus

7. Diary Blog: Majority people use blogs to write their personal activities. However, it is declining because of introduction new social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

8.Advertisement Blog: Blogs where companies advertise their products and bloggers eventually get paid to if companies advertise in bloggers.

9. News Blog: Blogges do break news after attended media conferences. This is one of the significant category of blogs as it contribute to journalism.

My opinion

Each blogs are combinations of styles in terms of topic, format and audiences. Firstly, I would look into the topic that I am interested to know as I expect to obtain information on the websites so that my time would not wasted.

Blogging Communities

Blogging communities from around the shared interst that the stronger the interest would eventually turn it into passion. So, how do we build blogging community? Have you thought about this question?

According to Rowse (2008), there are several ways to build community in a blog. One of the ways is links to other reader's blog. The tools such as comments, tag and permalink allows the viewers to link to other readers under the same interest. Research also stated that 'hyperlinks', 'other blog entries' and 'links' can seen as group of communities (Tseng, Tatemura and Wu, 2005).

But why classified?

One of the popular blogging communities is Mybloglog. By using the blogging communities, users update the community members is they had changed their url, new topics on their personal blogs. Tagging is what bloggers need to do on their posting to assists their friends or anyone that shared the same interest as them. In addition, this would ease other users to navigate around the websites to search information.

Reference List


Rowse, D 2008, How to Build Community on Your Blog, viewed on 15th June 2009, <http://problogger.net/archives/2008/04/26/how-to-build-community-on-your-blog>

Simons, M 2008, Towards a taxonomy of blogs, viewed on 13th June 2009, <http://www.creative.org.au/webboard/results.chtml?filename_num=229836>

Tseng, BL, Tatemura, J, Wu, Y 2005, Tomographic Clustering: To visualise Blog Communities as Mountain Views, Chiba, Japan

Wikipedia 2009, Blog, viewed on 13th June 2009, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog>