Blog classification and online communites

Over the past few years, the current phenomenon of blogs has grown significantly. There are wide of variety of topics, ranging from political to personal experiences.
The different types of blogs include:

• Personal blog
• Corporate blog
• By genre (fashion blog, sports blog, political blogs, education blog, music blog, history blog)
• By media type (vlog, linklog, ,scetchblog, photoblog)
• By device (moblog)
(Wikipedia 2009)

This is a screen shot of video blog
(Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevegarfield/2638038883 )

Margaret Simons, an authors and freelance journalist has classified nine different types of blogs. There are includes of pamphleteering blogs, digest blog ,advocacy blogs, popular ,mechanics blog, the exhibition blog, gate watcher blog ,the diary, the advertisement ,news blog. (ABC 2008) In my opinion, this nine of blog classification is more appropriate to represent different type of available blogs.

Furthermore, online communities are become important part of the internet.
Packwood (2005) stated that “community is present when individual and collective identity begins to be expressed; when we care about who said what, not just the what; when relationship is part of the dynamic and links are no longer the only currency of exchange” (cited in White 2006). White (2006) also said that blog community can be explored by the links between blogs and comments over time.

One of the examples of blog communities is education blogs. It is where educator using blog as part of their teaching method. Ferdig and Trammel (2004) said that this kind of blog are useful for teaching and learning tool since they provide a space for students to reflect and publish their though and understandings. It also provides opportunities for feedback. Beside that blogs are feature hyperlinks which allowed students to understand the relational and contextual basis of knowledge.

Reference

A taxonomy of blogs 25 September 2008,ABC radio national, The media report, viewed 6 June 2009, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript

Ferdig, RE,Ph.D &Trammell,KD 2004, ‘ content delivery in the blogosphere’, The Journal online, University of Florida, viewed 6 June 2009, http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docId=5006872677

White, N 2006, ‘Blogs and Community – launching a new paradigm for online community?’, The knowledge of tree,viewed 6 June 2009, http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community

Wikipedia 2009,Blog,viewed 7 June 2009, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog