Blogging issue (b): Classification of blogs & opinion about the most appropriate classification approach

What is a blog? A blog is short for weblog, which is a web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal of an individual (Webopedia, 2009). According to Wikipedia (2007), there are many types of different blogs such as personal blogs and corporate or organizational blogs which can be further classified by genre, media type, and device. The type of blog, which means content, refers to whether it is a personal blog versus a non personal blog and a profitable blog versus a non-profitable blog. In contrast, the meaning of genre with relations to the word blog would mean leisure, politics, social, travel, fashion and so on. Blogs can be presented in many ways. Media types determine how the content of the blog is presented. Examples include vlogs, linklogs, sketchlogs, photoblogs and etc. Moblogs and Wearable Wireless Webcams are examples of devices (Wikipedia, 2007).


Caption:Profitable blog (current trend, blogshops)

According to Margaret Simons (Media Report, 2008), there are only 9 types of blogs. The 9 are pamphleteering, digest, advocacy, popular mechanics, exhibition, gatewatcher, diary, news and advertisements. She categorizes blogs to their purposes and their contents. In some aspects, her theory may be true but it depends on how and what think of the word blog. Blogs should be solely graded on content so her theory may not be entirely valid to some. Grading on the content is less complicated then her theory.

References
Wikipedia, 2007, Blog, viewed 14 November 2009, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
Webopedia, 2009, Blog, viewed 14 November 2009, http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/b/blog.html
Simons, M 2008, A taxonomy of blogs, viewed 14 November 2009, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript
Blogshop:http://www.misstzx.blogspot.com/