Classification of blogs

One way to voice out self-opinions and ideas is through blogging. Some people treat their blog as personal daily diaries. However, people nowadays blog for money, business, career and so on which is why various classification of blogs exist. Some subject matters of blogs that I am familiar with are fashion reviews, politics, music, food and photography (Blogcatalog.com, n.d). Furthermore, we can immediately update our blog today by using mobile device which is known as moblog (Ellis-Christensen, n,d). Moreover, there are also other forms of blogging such as linklog, vlog, photlog, microblog, tumblelog and more (Bhargava 2009). Blog publishers are generally self-employed, full-time blogger, business partner, professionals and also the mainstream media journalists.

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From Funnell (2008) article, pamphleteering and advocacy blog are somehow similar as it is normally a brief essay arguing the point or stating strong viewpoint on certain topic such as politic issue but the writer generally cover a variety of topics. It is also similar to Sheih Kickdefella (2010), a Malaysian blogger as he often writes articles and expressing strong viewpoint on political issue. Popular-Mechanics (Funnell 2008) blog is where the blogger teaches audience to do or create stuff. This is similar to food blog that I know as blogger review how to cook in her blog (Malaysian Delicacies 2010). In my opinion, there are too many classifications of blogs but bloggers normally blog on what they are interested in.

References

ABC Media Report 2008, “A taxonomy of blogs”, ABC.net.au, viewed 11 April 2010,

< http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript>

Bhargava, R 2009, “The 25 Basic Styles of Blogging”, Slideshare.net, viewed 11 April 2010,

< http://www.slideshare.net/rohitbhargava/the-25-basic-styles-of-blogging-and-when-to-use-each-one>

Blogcatalog n.d, “Explore the Blogosphere”, Blogcatalog.com, viewed 11 April 2010,

< http://www.blogcatalog.com/>

Ellis-Christensen n.d, “What is moblog?”, Wisegeek.com, viewed 11 April 2010,

< http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-moblog.htm>

Kickdefella 2010, “Uno Mas”, Kickdefella.wordpress.com, viewed 11 April 2010,

< http://kickdefella.wordpress.com/>

Malaysian Delicacies 2010, “Flavours of Indian, Malay and Chinese Cuisine at your fingertips”, Malaysiandelicacies.blogspot.com, viewed 11 April 2010,

< http://malaysiandelicacies.blogspot.com/>