Blogs can be divided into different types. The way of seperating different blogs is by the topics of different blogs.Personal blogs
Personal blogs are the most traditional and common blogs. These blogs are related to bloggers personal issues and their life (Condron 2004, p.2 ). This kind of blog don't need any professional skills and they are not use to privide information. They use to reflect the blogger personal life. They would not get read mostly unless the blogger is a famous person, therefore personal blog is mostly for the blogger's own family members or friends.
Companies or organizations' blog
Companies and organisation's blogs are similar to personal blogs, they use for business reason. They can be use on public relations of a company. They set up a blog to promote their company and it's product. organisations such as NGOs can set up their blog to promote their value and let the public know more about their organisations. For example, Green Peace setup blog to promote environmental friendliness providing information on their function and gather people that with the same idea.
Genre
Blogs can also focus on a particular topic, for example politics, travel and housing(Metcalf 2006). For example, photographers setting up blog for showing people their photos are called Photo blogs. They do not have to be in the same stance or same experience when they are in the same blog community.
There are many blog communities on the internet, blogger is the most common one these days. There is another example that which I have used bbefore. The Xanga community, they got different communities like fashion, dating and love, in which peoplee can interact with different bloggers by posting a reply entry. However, in these communities, personal blogging is still available.
Reference:
Condron, L 2004, ‘Cataloging Blogs’ , Cataloging & classification quarterly, vol. 38, no.2, pp.3-4
Metcalf, S 2006, ‘Fixing a Hole’, New York Times, 18 March, pp.24
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