Blogs Clasification

 Blogs are design with different kind of style and this makes it difficult to identify the types they belong to. In order to classify blogs, the content of it are one of the element to look for. 

Blogs can be classified into 4 groups:

A)Subject Matter~ Blog objective and point of lifestyle, politics, personal journal and so..

Personal Blog

(Source: MissTLWen 2012)

Political Blog

(Source: Malaysia For All 2012)

Lifestyle Blog

(Source: BKKGUY 2012)

B) Device~  Using mobile, smart phone or  PDA as device to do blog posting: Moblog 

Moblog

(Source: Moblog 2012)

C) Media Type~ Choice of media to use eg. Vlog and Sketchblog

Vlog

(Source: Namewee 2012)

Sketchblog

(Source: Andrea Joseph's sketchblog 2012)

D) Status Publisher~

Product blog: A blog company use to update mews.

(Source: The Rapala Insider 2012)

However, Marget Simons (2008) states that blogs can be divided into 9 groups which are pamphlettering blogs, digest blogs, advocacy blogs, popular mechanics blogs, exhibition blogs, gatewatcher blogs, diary blogs, advertisement blogs and news blogs. Detail information can be found in A Taxonomy of Blogs. 

In my opinion, i feel that classifying blogs using subject matter, device, media type and status of publisher will be easier for public to find the information they want. As long as we Google the particular such as "photography blog', it will appear list of blogs related to photography. Classify blogs in this matter also make blogger easier to hit their target audience.

Reference

Simons, M 2008, Towards a taxonomy of blogs, viewed on 10 September 2012, <http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/mediareport-1999/a-taxonomy-of-blogs/3186686#transcript>