Classification of blogs & opinion about the most appropriate classification approach

There are three main reasons why people do blog is to speak about their mind, share expertise and experiences with family / friends, and making money or do business (Sussman 2009). Blog classification is required for the relevant blog searches, grouping blogs at a higher conceptual level, and its use (Singh & Joshi 2010).

CLASSIFICATION of BLOGS:


Margaret Simmons (2008) came up herself with nine classifications :


1. Pamphleteering blog : an individual / group of individual arguing a case
2. Digest blog : collection of materials of elsewhere
3. Advocacy blog : advocacy/ commercial group cover many different issues
4. Popular Mechanics blog : offer training and advice in specialist field
5. Exhibition blog : bring someone creation to wider audiences

6. Gatewatcher blog : gatekeepers of traditional media
7. Diary
8. Advertisement : to boost products
9. News blog

For my opinion Margaret classification of blogs are really potentially and have important contributions to journalism, its make us as the common bloggers have a lot difficulties to classify a blog.


On the other hand, in my opinion classification based on Subject Matters:


1. Political


2. Law


3. Fashion

4. History


5. Technology


6. Travel

7. Sport


8. Food

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References :

1. Ervaletta, T 2010, ‘

CLASSIFICATION OF BLOGS & OPINION ABOUT THE MOST APPROPRIATE CLASSIFICATION APPROACH

’, Blog spot , blog posting, 26 October, viewed 21 August 2011, <http://tiffanyxoxoervaletta.blogspot.com/2010/04/classification-of-blogs-opinion-about.html>.

2. Simmons, M 2008, Towards a taxonomy of blogs, Creative and Digital, Australian Policy Online, viewed 20 August 2011, <http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-0>.

3. Singh, AK & Joshi, RC 2010, Semantic tagging and classification of blog, Digital library, IEEE Explore, viewed 21 August 2011, <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?reload=true&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel5%2F5616735%2F5640373%2F05640490.pdf%3Farnumber%3D5640490&authDecision=-203>.

4. Sussman, M 2009, The What and Why of Blogging, Article, Technorati,viewed 20 August 2011, <http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-2-the-what-and-why2/page-2>.