Types of Blogs

Types of Blogs - There are several types or uses of blogs and weblogs:

Personal - Often, the word is used to describe an online diary or journal. The weblog format of an online diary makes it possible for users without much experience to create, format, and post entries with ease.

People write their day-to-day experiences, complaints, poems, prose, illicit thoughts and more, often allowing others to contribute. Online diaries are integrated into the daily lives of many teenagers and college students, with communications between friends playing out over their blogs.

Topical - Another common type is the topical blog. It focuses on a specific niche, often a technical one. An example is a Google Blog covering nothing but Google news.

Thoughtful - Where a Personal weblog is primarily concerned with daily life and events, and many topical ones focus on some technical topic, those in the “thoughtful” category present an individual’s (or a small group’s) thoughts on whatever subject comes to hand; not necessarily the latest computer technology or the latest political scandal, but typically less contingent and more philosophical subjects.

FriendBlog - A FriendBlog is a distributed networked journal on the web, composed of short, frequently updated posts written by friends connected through their similar interests. The author allows his FriendBlog to connect to other FriendBlogs, belonging to friends and acquaintances, and by doing so, their posts also appears in his.

Collaborative - which is written by more than one person about a specific topic. It can be either open to everyone or limited to a group of people. A new form of blog involves cooperation between bloggers and traditional media sources.

Political - Another common type is a political blog. Often an individual will link to articles from news web sites and post their own comments as well. Many of these comment on whatever interests the author. Some of them are more specialized. One subspecies is the watch blog which sets out to criticize what the author considers systematic errors or bias in an online newspaper or news site - or perhaps even by a more popular blogger.

Directory - Directory weblogs are useful for web-surfers because they often collect numerous web sites with interesting content in an easy to use and constantly updated format. News-related weblogs can fall into this category or the previous one.

Corporate - Increasingly, employees of corporations are posting official or semi-official blogs about their work.

Formats - Some weblogs specialise in particular forms of presentation, such as images or videos or on a particular theme, and acronyms have been developed for some of these, such as moblogs.

MP3 blog - One of the types of blog that has undergone rapid expansion since the turn of the millenium is the MP3 blog, which make audio files available to the user.

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