Classification of blogs & opinion about the most appropriate classification approach

Nowadays, with the evolution of new ecosystem, there a lot of people are starting use blog. So a lot of people will come out many different type of blog for them to publishing. According to Wordpress, blog can be divided into personal, business, schools, Non-profits, politics, military, private, sports and How-to, tips and review.  

Personal blog is talking about personal topics like their own activities; own thoughts, music, travels, and everything happened to them. The personal blog’s topic, style, format is different with the taxanomy blogs. In personal blog, the style and format usually is informal, for example, the way of their writing, and they will use their own specific words to describe something that we can’t usually see in the serious blog. We took an example in Malaysia; Malaysia is a mutli-racial country and so there a lot of language. In personal blogs, some bloggers may use different language and mix up together to writing their blogs. 

In business blog, there will be different with personal blog, business owner can also promote their product by blogging. When we look at business blog, the format will be a little formal if compared to personal blog.

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Reference


Word press, type of blog, viewed 20 Marche 2012, http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

Blogosphere phenomenon & benefit

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Nowadays, the way that we are communicated is changing. For example, in the past we are using diary to record down personal daily experience or thoughts and so on. In this century, people are start to using blog to substitute diary. In my own words, blog can be defined as personal diary online. In other words, blog can be the way of communication, because it can interact with each other.  According to ( Technorati,2011), blogs is frequently evolving. (Technorati,2011) also said that, In 2011, bloggers are updating and spending time on their blogs more. (Julian,2010) said that there are 2 million blogger in Malaysia. In Malaysia, blog can be used in political, business and casual.

According to (John Naughton, 2006), “the new ecosystem will be richer, more diverse and immeasurably more complex because of the number of content producers, the density of the interactions between them and their products, the speed with which actors in this space can communicate with one another, and the pace of development made possible by global networking.” However, there are a lot of benefits of blogging. In my personal view, blogging can improve our writing skill and own thought. In business, blog can help business to build community and better communication with customer. Besides that, blog is also cheap and easier to use. 

Reference

Technorati, 2001, State of the Blogosphere 2011: Introduction and Methodology, viewed 20 March 2012, http://technorati.com/social-media/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2011-introduction/#ixzz1qMkJ97jS http://technorati.com/social-media/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2011-introduction/#ixzz1qMkAptHE

Julian, 2010, How many Malaysian blogs are there?, viewed 20 March 2012,
http://julianhopkins.net/index.php?/archives/293-How-many-Malaysian-blogs-are-there.html

John Naughton, 2006, blogging and the emerging media ecosystem, viewed 20 March 2012,
http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf

Purpose of creating blog

Blogging are so common and popular currently. Blog can be defined as online diary, most of the people are sharing their personal thoughts, opinion or their life experience and allow other audience to leave comment and so on. Since the blog is easy to use and free of charge, blog also can be a marketing tool for businessman to promote their product.