There are many types of blogs which are being created today. According to Sun, Suryanto and Liu (2007), the problem of blog classification is the object to be classified in blog classfication are blogs where each blog consists of a set of blog posts and the number of posts may vary significantly from one blog to another. Other than Blogspot, Wordpress is one of the largest open source blogging software available. Wordpress has an article on the types of blogs that are available on their site.
A few common categories are:
1. Personal
2. Business
3. Political
4. Directory
5. Sports
(Source: lh6.googleusercontent.com, 2011)
Unlike Wordpress, Simmons classifies blogs by the way information is being presented and analysed in blog posts. Categories that are suggested by Simmons differ from Wordpress. For example, Wordpress classifies certain blogs as political blogs which Simmons will categorize them as pamphleteering blogs. I personally think that the most appropriate method of classifying blog should be similar to the way Wordpress classify blogs, which is identifying the topic and the content of the blog posts.
References:
- Goh, DHL, Cao, TH, Solvberg, IT 2007, Asian digital libraries, viewed 16th April 2011, <http://books.google.com.my/books?id=8pxUkfwqt_0C&pg=PA307&dq=blog+classification&hl=en&ei=oHPGTaXEMdDNrQf4rKXVBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=blog%20classification&f=false>
- Simons, M 2008, A taxonomy of blogs, The media report, viewed 16th April 2011, <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcriptt>
- Types of Blogs, Wordpress.com, viewed 16th April 2011, <http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/>
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