CLASSIFICATION OF BLOGS

DIFFERENT SYSTEM OF BLOG CLASSIFICATION


An interview has been done by ABC Radio National on Taxonomy of Blog with Margaret Simon (Author and Media Analyst); here are 9 types of blogs according to Margaret.

1. Pamphleteering blog, also known as old tradition blog that arguing and express a strong point of view. such as: Politic blog, updating on current events on political matter. some example that Margaret stated such as Larvatus Prodeo, Andrew Norton.

2. Digest blog, guides blog and summaries to subject that you can access elsewhere. Margaret argued that this    blog become less important because social networking site has overtaking its function.

ex : Fair Go Fairfax, and the rival Fairfax management site Just the Fact, link that established by the journalist. they compile articles and news form mainstream media. both sites often link to the same articles.

3. Advocacy blog, established by advocacy group and concern on single topic 

ex; The Greens, blog that concern on environment issue.

4. The Popular Mechanics blog, offer training and advices in specialist field. almost same like magazine function.

ex; Skaters, specialist in skating sport and Aussie gardening.

example of The Popular Mechanic blog

5. The Exhibition blog, recognize as vanity publishing. maintained by craftspeople, artists, writer to bring their work to the wider audience around the world.

ex; poetry blog, quilting blog.

example of exhibition blog: quilts blog

6. The GateWatcher blog, small group of blog that monitoring the media. bloggers cover what media doesn't. 

ex : Possum Comitatus

7. The Diary, individual blog that created for friends and family. contain news, photo, and information of personal. 

8. The Advertisement, a close relative with advocacy blog. main goal is to boost up the sales of their product.

ex : nuffnang 

9. The News blog,  break the news, bloggers will attend the media conferences.


Moreover, there are 8 types of blog classification according to TDavid, which are;

1. Linklog, also known as social bookmarking blog. e.g Delicious
2. Moblog, providing pictures from camera or mobile devices e.g Flikr
3. Podcast, known as audio recording blog e.g imeem
4. Vlog, providing popular video in different format mp4, wmv e.g Youtube, Metacafe
5. Microblog, blog that contain short text entries about one's daily activities e.g twitter
6. Miniblog, using small amount of content to shorter the original material e.g Tumblr
7. Liveblog, covering more to the live event show e.g Cinematical
8. Blog, lmore detail posting in article form e.g blogspot, wordpress

In my opinion when we try compare both Margaret Simon and TDavid style of categorization, I think Margaret Simon has more effectiveness compare to TDavid.  "Antony Funnell, the interviewer from ABC also pointed that the word "blog" itself doesn't give clear idea about the content or nature of a given online site. supported by Margaret Simon describes the term as 'manifestly inadequate', because it offers so little differentiation" (abc.net, 2008). I realize that some blogs that have many combination of style make us confuse in identifying the type of blog. for instant, Kenny Sia. besides using video and picture, there are a lot of other elements inside his blog, it will create a situation whereby it is hard for us to identify the type and genre of the blog if we use TDavid classification. while if we refer to Margaret's taxonomy of blog, we can classify KennySia's blog under Diary blog. 

References

APO.org, Towards a Taxonomy of Blogs in 2008, retrieved on 11th April 2010

http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-0

MakeYouGoHmm .com, The 8 different types of blogging in 2008,  retrieved on 11th April 2010,
www.makeyougohmm.com/20080124/5040


The Free Dictionary, microblog definition, retrieved on 13th April 2010.
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/microblog

The Greens,The Australian Green Bob Brown. retrieved on 11th April 2010.

http://bob-brown.greensmps.org.au/blog

The Media report, A taxonomy of blogs, 2008.retrieved on 11th April 2010.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript