2B Classification of Blogs

According to (Sussman 2009), different people blog for different reasons. Based on the review of 'A taxonomy of blogs', Margaret Simons (2008) has come up with her own lists consist of 9 types of blog classification:

• Pamphleteering Blog

Pamphleteering blog is places where an individual or a group of individuals can post an essay argue on a point or to express a strong point of view.

• Digest Blog 

Users of digest blog tend to summarize points and materials on a single topic mainly from the mainstream media with analysis by adding in comments and opinions of themselves.

• Advocacy Blog

Users of advocacy blog tend to push a point of view on an issue..

• Popular Mechanics Blog

User of popular mechanics blog contain contained extraordinarily rich source of information on how to do stuff.

• Exhibition Blog

Users who is classified into this category will put their creative art work on the web and then talk about how they did it. 

• Gatewatcher Blog

A small group of user that find their purpose by watching the way media does their job. 

• Diary Blog

The majority blog people used and people are putting snapshots with their family, bits of news and views about their lives in personal up online. 

• Advertisement Blog

Advertisement blog is when commercial companies flogging a product and sometimes the commercial companies will actually pay bloggers to post about their product.

• Newsblog

There are a couple of blogs, mostly local ones, which are beginning to try and give people news. 

Compare

There is this blog where a person named Xia Xue, is constantly blogging to teach people the way of making oneself prettier by her professional make up skills. 

The style of her blog is about herself, she make her photo as the background of her blog.

Then, there is this upper part where she put the photo of the day and the latest video of her in blog.

In my opinion, I believe that the better classification of a blog is most important by looking at the style, method and the format audience of a blog. If a blog is filled with informations and the style and placement of the blog is nice and attractive, it is a good blog.








References:


Simons, M 2008, 'Towards a Taxonomy of Blogs', Australian Policy Online, viewed 10 April 2010, < http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-0 >.

Sussman, M 2009, 'Day 2: The What and Why of Blogging - SOTB 2009', Technorati, viewed 9 April 2010,  < http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-2-the-what-and-why2/page-2 >.