The blogosphere, is known as a collective community of all the blogs, these blogs are although some not clearly, are interconnected and socially networked through blogrolls, comments, linkbacks (also known as refbacks, trackbacks or pingbacks) and backlinks (Wikipedia.org 2009).
To simplify the meaning of a blogging community, it can be divided into three categories: The Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community where authors mingle with the commenters, commenters mingle with the other commenters to get to know each other and so on, The Central Connecting Topic Community where there are many other blog links with the same topics and The Boundaried Community like Myspace, Yahoo 360degrees and so on (White 2006).
Blogger Centric Community:
Central Connecting Topic Community:
The Boundaried Community:
Many people do not realise that just by leaving comments on blogs or giving their opinions and ideas, they are already part of that particular blogging community.
To create a blogging community, the author must first get in touch with other blogs, leave comments on them, reply the comments on their own blogs, make your blog entertaining, update it often, and most importantly, market your blog to increase readership (Nikkis 2009)
As for me, one of the blogging community I am more familiar with is the Boudaried Community because it is easier to find people with the same interests and personality as me. For a website like Myspace.com, everyone with the same interest would be in the same community and therefore it is easier to have discussions and share ideas and so on.
References:
Nikkis 2009, How to Build a Blogging Community, online, retrieved 17th November 2009, from http://www.ehow.com/how_2152382_build-blogging-community.html.
White, N. 2006, Blogs and Community-Launching a New Paradigm for Online Community?, online, retrieved 17th November 2009, from http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-–-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community.
Wikipedia 2009, Blog, online, retrieved 17th November 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog#Community_and_cataloging.
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