Classification of blogs

Blogs are classified with different categories that are listed below (technorati.com, 2008):

• Entertainment
• Business
• Lifestyle
• Sports
• Technology
• Politics

Within this categories of blogs, one category of Blog, say Entertainment, are more categorise that is listed below:

Entertainment

• Celebrity and gossip
• Gaming
• Movies and Film
• Music
• Television
• Theater
  

Now, readers read blogs on particular subject that they are interested in. For example, I'm more interested on movies; therefore, I would search for a blog on a topic of movies. Blogs is like a virtual diary. Bloggers write on issues or topics that they are interested in while other bloggers/readers will share comments on that particular topic. Therefore, this shows interactivity within each other.

BLOGGING COMMUNITY

According to Gil (2006), the term 'online community' implied a community who interacted online within some bounded set of technology. Such blogging communities like Global Voices Community, MyBlogLog, Xanga, etc. To further explain blogging community, Xanga for example, is a blogging community where bloggers are connected to other bloggers.

www.xanga.com

Xanga is a community where enables the public to create their free weblog, share vidoes, pictures, meet friends and connect to you who shares the same interest as you.

How to create a blogging community is just simple and easy. It's simply by providing links to other blogs on the side bar of your blog and comment section.




References:

Technorati 2008, Blog Directory, viewed 4 November 2008, <http://technorati.com/blogs/directory>

Xanga 2008, Xanga, viewed 4 November 2008, <http://www.xanga.com/>

Gil 2006, Blogs and Community- launching a new paradigm for online community, viewed 4 November 2008, <http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>

ABC Radio National 2008, A taxanomy of blogs, viewed 4 November 2008, <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript>

Wikipedia 2008, Blog, viewed 4 November 2008, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog>