Types and method of blogging communities

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Online community mainly shaping throughout emails, bulletin boards and forums. Blogging consider as a daily routine nowadays and most of the society will have at least one blog. Blogging community is an interaction between bloggers in different blogs around the world. Generally, blogging has turn out to be the newest communication mode for forming an effective community, a collection of blogs linking back and forth to one another’s postings, while discussing common topics through the comment box or chat box (Chin and Chignell, 2006). In addition, features such as RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and feedreaders commenced to propose new possibilities – how we revealed and read blog posts (White 2006). Tagging is also one form of blogging community.

This specific blogger, Lim Kit Siang (http://blog.limkitsiang.com/), it’s one of the famous Malaysian blogger. The blogger blogs about the political issue in Malaysia and share his opinion about it which grab the attention of the media. This blog include links for archives, topics and categories, RSS and also links to other blogger’s blog. Lim maintains his blog and make sure it is up to date news and also provides biographies and bibliographies on the main page of the blog. The blogger share his opinion to the society and through feedbacks, the blogger also learn new information and opinion. Member can also ‘log in’ or register and may be able to communicate with the blogger privately. He also provide PDF file document to the reader on some issue so that reader can download it. Social network site such as Twitter also use by the blogger to maintain his relationship with his reader. This is consider as a good blog as it provide many features for his reader and maintain his updates and relationship with the readers.

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References

Chin, A and Chignell, M 2006, “Abstract”, A social hypertext model for finding community in blogs, University of Toronto, Toronto.

White, N 2006, “Blogs and Community – launching a new paradigm for online community?”, Australian Flexible Learning Framework, viewed 15 April 2010,

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