Classification of blogs.

People blog for different reasons, and also create different types of blogs depend on their interest and target audience (Chris, 2010). 

Classification of blog is essential so that bloggers have a clear vision to refer to, Chris, 2010, mentioned in his blog by tags are most certainly needed and helpful, at least is easy discovery and consumption of materials of interest.

According to Simons (2008), he classified blogs into 9 different categories as follows;

• Pamphleteering blogs, eg: Andrew Norton's blog
• Digest blogs, eg:  FairGoFairfax
• Advocacy blogs, eg: Telstra's exercise in corporate spin
• Popular Mechanics blogs, eg:  Strobist
• Exhibition blogs, eg: AroundtheWorldIn20Quilts
• Gatewatcher blogs, eg: Beat Blogging
• Diary 
• Advertisement
• News blogs, eg: Mayne Report

Subject Matters:

• politics
• fashion
• history
• law

Media types:

-vlog - is short video blog, is a term use to describe a blog that contains video clips. Examples of vlog areyoutube.com.

-linklog - is a blog that consist of other blogs' URL and you can link to those blogs. Example of a linklog is Linkwalla.

-sketchlog - is a blog that consists of images, especially sketches and other drawings. Example of a sketchlog is Karin Rindevall’s sketch log. 

-tumblelog - is a short and concise blog that provides little or sometimes no commentary at all. -photolog - is a blog that contains photos, where the photos is the primary element not the text. 

-splog - is short for spam blog.

Device: 

-moblog - is short for mobile blogging. it is a blog where Mobile Phones acts as another device to publish blog entries. Example of a moblog is flickr.

State of Publishers:

-Corporate blogs, e.g. Redfin Corporate Blog

-Business blog, eg: GuruFocus.com

When comes to the combinations of blog styles, there is a need to identify the topics, style and format. In my opinion, Simons classification compare to my findings of classification is more terminology words to name the type of blog. My findings is more simple and straight forward. But the classification did not include interactive blog to produce a discussion and share same thoughts but they have forum.

Chris Heuer, 2010, Simple blog classification system, viewed on 29/9/2010, retrieved from <http://www.chrisheuer.com/2005/07/14/simple-blog-classification-system-please-no-acronyms/>

Simons, M 2008, Towards a taxonomy of blogs, Australian Policy Online, viewed 28 September 2010, from <http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-0>