Type of blog

Different types of blogs, the differing not only in the type of blog but is in the way of delivered or written the content. Several blog is by media type. That is vlog, linklog, sketchblog or photoblog. The moblog or mobile blog is blog by device. A moblog is consists of content posted to the Internet from a mobile phone or Personal digital assistant (PDA). Blog by genre is some blog focus on a particular subject such as political blogs, travel blogs, house blogs, fashion blogs, project blogs, education blogs, niche blogs, classical music blogs or dreamlogs. (Wikipedia, 2008)

Many blogs are combinations of style, which makes identifying unique types difficult. The blogs have different type of topic, style, format, and audience. A reading of taxonomy of blogs is show that different blogs have different function, form, format, topic and audience. (The media report, 2008) In this reading show the Digest Blog just collects articles on the issue from mainstream media with a very small piece of analysis compare with Wikipedia is the same concept. People can easily edit the content so that the content are become not so accuracy.

Blogging Communities

Communities from around this shared interest, and the stronger groups turn that interest into a passion. Create a blogging communities is important. The three step of creating blog community, which is basic configuration, set theme and modules. (WriteNiche, 2006) Blog based community shows up in three main patterns, which are The Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community, the Central Connecting Topic Community and the Boundaried Community. (The Knowledge Tree, 2006)

Different type of blog has different type of blogging communities. Here discuss about the political communities. For example, Rocky’s bru is one of the political blog. In this blog is share lot of information of the politic and share same interest with people.

References:

Wikipedia 2008, Blog Types, viewed 28 October 2008,< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs>

Write Niche 2006, How to create a Blogging Community, viewed 28 October 2008, <http://wn.goldenprose.com/?q=node/1815>

The Media Report 2008, A taxonomy of blogs, viewed 28 October 2008, <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript>

The Knowledge Tree 2006, Blogs and community, viewed 27 October 2008, <http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>