Classification of Blogs & Opinion About the Most Appropriate Classification Approach

Source: Margaret Simons.com

What is Blog?

Blogs are for ideas sharing and there are the good and the bad that should be taken into consideration. Different types of blog have been created daily as a platform for sharing ideas. As mention by Reich & Solomon (2007), 120,000 new blogs are created daily. Herring (2005) divided blog into three types of blog while according to Margaret Simons, she has characterized into nine types of blog accordingly into the categories.
 

Margaret Simons mentioned all the nine types of blogs in her article called ‘Towards taxonomy of blogs’ on 11th September 2008. She categories blogs into pamphleteering, digest, exhibition, advocacy, news, gatewatcher, exhibition, popular mechanics, and diary. Meanwhile in another articled named 'Automated Blog Classification: Challenges and Pitfalls' (2006) by Andrea La Pietra, Hong Qu and Sarah Poon have categories into four types of blogs which consists of political, news, personal and also sport.

Types of Blogs (Source: ProBlogger, 2008)

I personally think that Margaret Simons definitions of blogs are more simplify and systematize and it is much easier to understand. There are few blogs that similar to Diary blog because it contain a story about someone’s life which telling us in details how they start their day, what happen in their life, and also how it’s end. Blogs bring people together because of the sharing of interest and to expand their social network. Therefore I have to agree with Andrea La Pietra, Hong Qu and Sarah Poon because they did mentioned that blogs belongs to various categories and, which is undeniably. Nevertheless the authors have    their own definitions of blogs and I must admit that I agree with Margaret Simons because of her details explanations of blog category that available on AustralianPolicyOnline.

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REFERENCES 

• Herring, Susan C., Lois A. Scheidt, Sabrina Bonus, and Elijah L. Wright 2005, Weblogs as a bridging genre, Information, Technology & People, 18(2): 142-171  
• Qu, H., Pietra A.L. and Poon, S. n.d., ‘Automated Blog Classification: Challenges and Pitfalls’, viewed 24th March 2012, <http://www.aaai.org/Papers/Symposia/Spring/2006/SS-06-03/SS06-03-037.pdf>
• Reich & Soloman 2007, Media Rules!, John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey
• Simons M. 2008, ‘Towards a taxonomy of blogs’, Australian Policy Online, 11th September 2008, viewed 24th March 2012, <http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-0>