.: Classification Of Blogs & Opinion About The Most Appropriate Classification Approach :.

In general, there are many varieties of blogs on the World Wide Web nowadays. All these blogs are being classifies to be put in their own group depending on the topic is being discussed. Roger von Oech from creative think, there are four types of blogs categorized as below:

1.              Distraction blogs - a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies. Example : (Jack and Mandy blog jackandmandy.blogspot.com )

2.            Archive blogs - motivate by other’s people passion to pursue or achieve target together. People share same interest or benefits together. Example : (blog.archive.org/2011/05/12/physical-archive-launch)

3.            Conversation blogs - There are some question for readers or audiences to participate for people to comment and suggest their own ideas. Example : (www.ragan.com/SocialMedia/Article/10_easy_ways_to_kill_your_blog__43466.aspx)

4.            Democratic blog - Motivated by them in the social dynamics and their imagination future. Example: (http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/ )

According to Margeret Simmons who is a freelance journalist and an author, blogs are classified into nine different types of blogs in the following:

1.            Pamphleteering blog - group of individual or an individual put out a brief political issue or social movement discussing at their own point and then compare their point of view to create different type of readings.

2.            Digest blog- Usually from other blogs but sometime in mainstream media, tend to summarise, point or to collect material from a place just beneficial for readers in "finding things".

3.            Advocacy Blog - motivate a specific point of view on a particular case to others point of views.

4.            Popular Mechanics blog- source on how things work on stuff with mechanics.

5.            Exhibition blog- blog post from craftspeople, artists, writers, which bring their work to wider connections.

6.            Gatewatcher Blog – watch closely on the media. Media are the gatekeepers because they decide what story to be published.

7.             Diary blog – personal lives of people publish in blogs. This is done on the computer nowadays, it just like writing a "book" of diary.

8.             Advertisement blog - Commercial companies use blogs to promote the product to the public.

9.              News blog- breaking news usually maintained by bloggers who attend media conferences .They blog about the issues and provide a bit of their opinion without being obvious.

In my opinion, I think that Margaret Simmons classification is more complete and much easier to categorize in the classifications of blogs. These are the main blog contents most people write about and bring people together due to their interest group and to expand their social network.

Reference :

1. Oech. R.V 2007. A taxonomy of blogs [online]. [Accessed on 28 August 2011]. Available from: blog.creativethink.com/2007/03/a_taxonomy_of_b.html
2.  Simons. M 2008. Towards a taxonomy of blogs [online]. [Accessed on 28 August 2011]. Available from: www.apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-0