Classification of Blogs & Opinion About The Most Appropriate Classification Approach.

Blogs are created by bloggers for various reasons. Since there are so many different types of blogs on the net, classification of blogs becomes crucial.

Here are some examples of classification of blogs:

Subject Matter:

• Politics: Left Foot Forward, Evening Standard, Shot By Both Sides..
  
• Fashion: Style Rookie, Style Bubble, Whatkatiewore..
  
• History: Baroque Explorations, Echoes of a Forgotten Age, Historical Boys..
  
• Law: Above the law, Althouse, Bitter Lawyer..
  
• Sports: Deadspin, SportsbyBrooks..
  
• Food: The Wednesday Chef, Delicious Days..
  

Device:

• Moblog, also known as mobile blogging is an alternative method for bloggers to blog via their mobile phones. Bloggers can now dash off a quick blog entry wherever they are as long as there's mobile coverage! Blogging has become an ultimate convenience for users to share their thoughts with the world (Knudsen, 2003). An example of moblog is Twitter.
  

Media types:

• Vlog, short for 'video blog'. It is a blog that primarily uses video to express opinions and convey messages. Eg: Youtube
  
• Linklog is a collections of URLs (hyperlinks) that the blogger finds it interesting to collect. It sort of like bookmarking. Eg: Tony Finch's Linklog
  
• Sketchlog is a blog that consists of images, sketches and drawings. Eg: Jose Villegas Sketchlog
  
• Tumblelogs also known as microblogging. A tumblelog entry has very small content, for example, it could only be a short sentence, or an image or embedded video. Eg: Zennie-t
  

Status of publishers:

• Business blog: Division of Labour, Cafe Hayek..
  

• Corporate blog: The Otter Group, English Cut..
  

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According to the reading A Taxonomy of Blogs, Margaret Simons (2008) has given her own classifications of blogs consists of 9 genres: Pamphleteering blogs, digest blog, advocacy blog, Popular Mechanics blog, Exhibition blog, Gatewatcher Blog, The Diary, Advertisement blog and lastly, News blog. In my opinion, it has given classification of blogs a whole new perspective comparing to the classification of blogs by its main topic, for example, politics, fashion, history and so and so forth.



Reference

Anissimov, M. (2010). What is Vlogging?. Available: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-vlogging.htm. Last accessed 29th September 2010.

Funnell, A. (2008). A taxonomy of blogs. Available: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm. Last accessed 29th September 2010.

Knudsen, J . (2003). Introduction to Mobile Blogging. Available: http://developers.sun.com/mobility/midp/articles/blogging/ . Last accessed 29th September 2010.