Classification of blogs & opinion about the most appropriate classification approach.

As mentioned in the previous post, there are two kinds of blog - type based and other media. Personal blogs, collaborative blogs, corporate blogs, topical blogs and spam blogs are considered as type based while podcasts and videocasts and photologs are belongs to other media.

Blogs can be categorized by subject matter, device, media type and status of publisher. For example, people share their feelings or opinions by uploading videos to youtube and this is one of the media types in blogging.

There is a taxanomy of blogs by Margaret Simons (2008), she classified blogs into 9 categories:

Pamphleteering Blogs

The digest blog

The advocacy blog

The popular mechanics blog

The exhibition blog

The gatewatcher blog

The diary

The advertisement

The news blog

On the other hand , there is another classification system suggested by Misty Belardo (2010). Author classified blogs to collaborative blogs, tutorial blogs, travel/cultural blogs, fashion & lifestyle blogs, and personal blogs.

In my opinion, Misty Belardo's is better than Simons' one because the latter is more complicated and hard to understand. Belardo classify the blogs according to the content or topic and the target audience is clear and definite. Hence, I prefer Belardo's classification method to Simon's taxamony of blogs.

Reference List:

1. Belardo, M 2010, The 5 types of blogs; which one suits you best?, Inkrebels, viewed on 24th August 2011,http://www.inkrebels.com/insp/the-5-types-of-blogs-which-one-suits-you-best/
2. Simons, M 2008, Towards a taxonomy of blogs,viewed on 24th August 2011, http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-0.