From the previous post, we talked about the current blogosphere and also the benefits towards the society. Nevertheless, the classification of blogs are also important. Each and every blog that written, they have their own genre and classification regarding on what their blogs bring to the public. The blogosphere phenomenon grow tremendously and it is getting harder to classify the types of blog as there is too many different types of blogger, the scope of writing is wider than how we can classify it. Thus, different person classify blog differently.
According to Belardo (2010), she classified blogs into 5 types:
- Collaborative blog
- Tutorial blog
- Travel and cultural blog
- Fashion and lifestyle blog
- Personal blog
Among the 5 types of blog above, personal blog is the most common one. Everyone can have their own personal blog to write about their daily life or as a dairy. Meanwhile, Simons (2008) classified it into 9 types, which is:
- Pampletheering blogs
- Digest blogs
- Advocacy blogs
- Popular mechanics blogs
- Exhibition blogs
- Gatewatcher blogs
- Diary
- Advertisement
- News blog
Throughout this 2 different people who classified the blog types differently, I would like to say that, Simon (2010) classifed it more in depth. Whereas, Belardo (2010) classified the types of blog in a very general way. In my opinion, I would like the way how Simon (2010) classified the genre and style of writing of each type of blog. Meanwhile, I found that Rowse (2010) classified it as details as how Simon (2010) did, but they have different opinion towards the genre and types of blog, so they came out with different type of blogs.
Rowse, D. 2005, 20 Types of Blog Posts- Battling Bloggers Block, viewed 24 August 2011,<http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/11/29/20-types-of-blog-posts-battling-bloggers-block/>
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