Blogs are currently on the rise and it is getting harder to classify blogs into aspects that we, as readers know. How do we know a blog is written for political ideology or just for leisure purposes? Blogs are currently getting more ambiguous. However, a taxonomy is used to give readers a general classification of a particular blog. Blogs can be classified into two, filter - style and free - style.
Filter-style
According to Wang (1999, cited by Branum, 2001), filter-style blogs are blogs similar to early blogs whereby the author focuses on linking sites/or articles that the author finds suitable to his/her readers. This type of blogs is aimed at building a network between the readers and the author by giving links that would have aspects in common.
Free-style blog (Journal style)
Ozawa (2001, cited by Branum, 2001) states that these kinds of blogs are focused less on the external world and more on the internal world of the author. Therefore, the author's interests and problems becomes the main topic for the blog. In other words, the blog is functioning as an online journal for the author but is allowing strangers to read whatever the author writes.
In opinion, a free-style blog gives the author more freedom to write his/her opinions but differs from the point of maintaining a blog. To conclude, classification of blogs may help how readers know what blog it is that they want to read but does it all matter? Or does the author is of importance rather than the content as for example Kenny Sia's blog or Xia Xue's blog whom are famous bloggers but content wise, are almost nothing.
Reference List
Branum, J.M 2001, 'The Blogging Phenomenon: An Overview and Theoretical Considerations,' JMBZine.com, December 2001, viewed 10 April 2012, <http://www.ajy.net/jmb/blogphenomenon.htm>
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