Blogosphere is a huge space which appeals attandances of millions people every day. There are several criteria for us to base on such as blogger's goals, function of blog... in order to classify blogs into some certain catogories.
From blogger's purpose corner, according to Technorati, we can identify four type of bloggers as following:
Hobbyists –the backbone of the blogosphere, they blog just for fun, and do not report any income from their blog
Part-Timers – "blog to supplement their income" or "blog as part of their full time job,"
Corporates – "blog full-time for a company or organization"
Self-Employeds – "blog full time or occasionally for their own company or organization."
The percentages of contributing to blogoshpere of them is demonstrated by the diagram (Technorati 2010).
At the view of blogs' functions, there are nine type of blogs which could be recognized ((Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2008).
Pamphleteering blog is where an individual or a group of individuals put out a brief essay arguing a point, or expressing a strong point of view.
Digest Blog is just aggregating stuff. Basically they tend to point or to summarise material from mainstream media and other blogs.
Advocacy Blog tends to be pushing a particular point of view on a particular issue by a vested interest group.
Popular Mechanics blog is a fascinating collection of information on how to do stuff, with mechanics and how things worked.
Exhibition blog are usually maintained by craftspeople, artists, writers to bring their work to a wider audience.
Gatewatcher Blog keeps an eye on the media to evaluate how the media describes the facts and conveys them publicly.
Diary blog is a place for people to put snapshots with their family, bits of news and views about their personal lives up online.
Advertisement blog is a place for commercial companies flogging a product.
News blog breaks news and plays a role as a place where bloggers are beginning to attend media conferences and have representation in society and so on.
However, identifying unique types of blog is difficult because many blogs are combinations of style.
References list:
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 25 September 2008, A taxonomy of blogs, viewed 25th April 2011, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm
- Jon Sobel, Technorati, 3 November 2010, State of the Blogosphere 2010, viewed 25 April 2011, http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2010-introduction/
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