A blogging community can be defined as those who are active and very involved in the blogging sphere which includes writing blog post, reading blogs as well as leaving opinions and comments on people’s blogs. To create a blogging community or to take part in a blogging community, tools like chat boxes or shoutboxes, sitemeters, custom feeds and comment boxes are used (blogcatalog, 2009). Social network such as Facebook, Twitter or My Space can also be used to publicize blogs to expand the blog sphere.
Caption: Facebook with a blog add.
Blogs can be divided into 3 different categories; the Blogger Centric Community, the Topic Centric Community and the Boundaried Community. The Topic Centric Community is a network formation in other words a group of bloggers who share the same passion. The Blogger Centric Community is a site owned by a single person or a company whereby many bloggers blog in one blog. Bloggers can interact among other bloggers or people who leave comments. The Boundaried Community on the other hand is a group of bloggers who have issue identification. Power and identity are the tools used in this community. In Global Voices, readers can interact with Jeff Ooi and other visitors but the content of the blog is under the control of the author. Global Voices is of the same structure as Blogger Centric Community.
References
www.facebook.com
Blogcatalog 2009, online, viewed 14 November 2009, from http://www.blogcatalog.com/
Blogs and Community-launching a new paradigm for online community?
http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community
Bradshaw, P 2008, 5 stages of a blogger's life, viewed 15 November 2009, http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/09/26/5-stages-of-a-bloggers-life/
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