BLOGGING COMMUNITY

What is Blogging Community?
a group number of people that share a similar interest and discussion always occur between the group directly or indirectly.

How to form a blogging community?
For illustration,at first an individual starting to blog in specific topic, e.g gaming. then they will start to find other individual that share the same interest which is gaming. commenting on eac other blog, and using web tool such as RSS (Really Simple Syndication) will make them easier to interact with each other. interaction not only occur in the cyberspace. whereas sometimes the community decided to meet up and interact in the real world e.g gathering and sharing.

The technological act has joined and play an important role in online community, in early year before blog are created, people tend to use BBSs (Bulletin Board Sytem), Forums and joined email to interact. different from this new era, whereby blog adoption accelerated people use webtool to drive the traffic to your blog; such as RSS, tagging, mashups, Share Your Story with discussion board based, comment post, and other social networking site (facebook, twitter, myspace)  will be useful as well.

Different Types of Blogging Community

According to Nancy White (2006), there are three main pattern of blogging community, 

1. Blogger Centric Community, also known as single blog

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Owned by one blogger/ organisation that become the central identities

• there may be more than one people who write the blog
• blogging tools for this communities ; WordPress, Blogger, and Typepad
• Blog's owner has fully control on the blog; set the rule, censorship issue towards comment from member shows that there is NO expectation democracy. 
• looking at the subject matter, it is almost same like broadcast-like. central blogger will set the topic, member will respond to it.

This community develop over time depends hard on communities perspective. there is a situation in which key commentors come and attract their own set of reader in comment may turn them to create their own blog. in different situation, other commentors might be add this blog to their daily reading. 
ex : European Mozilla Community Blog

    2.  Central Connecting Topic Community, network formation

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Community can be form by a common passion or topic

• Topic will be central of the identities for the blog. it manifest through the relevance of the topic, quality and amount of enjoyment that the community can get from a post.
• there are no specific tools,blogger select their own tool.

ex: Food Blog

3. Boundaried Communities, 

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Member register and 'join' basis blog. and the community are able to create a blog.

• example ; Myspace, Yahoo360, Share YourStory.
• Farmer's (2006), Australian free educational blogging sites; Edublogs, ESLblogs
•  blogging tools such as; RSS, discussion board, social networking site and etc
• Power in boundaried communities exercised by the bloggers depends on three typical ways; frequent, popularity, social networking tools.

EXAMPLE OF BLOGGING COMMUNITY


GALAXIE BLOG

source : Galaxy.com.my

A blog that created by a magazine company called as GALAXIE, basically blog about entertainment in Malaysia. in my point of view, i  will classify Galaxie blog community under Blogger Centric Community. owned by an organisation and there are more than 1 writer in the blog. 

more than 1 writer in the blog

GALAXIE BLOG using webtools such as RSS, Twitter, Comment box and etc. full authority under Star Publication (Malaysia) which mean Star Publication has full control towards its content and 'cries of censorship' white (2006) might be applied as well on its content. 

References

thetravelart.com, What is Blogging Community?, 2009. retrieved on 13th April 2009

http://www.thetraveltart.com/what-is-a-blogging-community/

White, N. 2006, "Blogs and community: Launching a new paradigm for online community?", Going Communal, retrieved 11^th April 2010, http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community.