According to Bruns & Jacobs (2005), since the birth of the blogging phenomenon, there have been no other media form stronger than the pull of blogging. Blogs may vary from what the author decides to talk about in the blog, which can be from leisure to business to anything that the author decides to talk about.
According to Technorati.com (2009), there are many blog classifications ranging from Entertainment blogs, to political, sports, technology and so on.
While on top of that, each classification will also have their own sub-categories. For example, a sports blog can be divided into different type of sports like Baseball, Tennis, Football and so on (Technorati.com 2009).
According to Simmons (2008), taxonomy of blogs are different type of blogs that currently exist, there are in all, nine types:
Popular Mechanics blogs( the how-to blogs)
Exhibition blogs (‘vanity publishing’)
Gatewatcher blogs (more to media watches)
However, I feel that there are still many more different types of blogs out there, because the blogosphere is growing day by day and people are coming up with many more different topics to blog about.
Although everyone knows that information from Wikipedia is not necessarily 100% accurate, information on blogs too are questionable because it can be regarded as a amateur source if information are not cite correctly.
References:
Bruns, A. & Jacobs, J. 2005, Uses of Blogs: Chapter One, online, retrieved 17h November 2009, from http://snurb.info/files/01%20Introduction%20-%20Axel%20Bruns%20&%20Joanne%20Jacobs%20.pdf.
Simmons, M. 2008, A Taxonomy of Blogs, online, retrieved 17th November 2009, from http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript.
Technorati 2009, Blog Directory, online, retrieved 17th November 2009, from http://technorati.com/blogs/directory.
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