pick a theme.know your issue.keep blogging!
(source : http://www.blog.globalgiving.com 2007)
Since the rapid emergence of blog has created a new issue. As there are no clear blog classifications as in books or movies, experts believe that the term ‘blog’ is no longer enough to describe its various contents (Simons, 2008), be it political, news, or simply an online diary.
Margaret Simons was the first to come up with an idea of blog taxonomy. She classifies blogs to 9 types. The first one is a pamphleteering blogs which could be defined as argumentative pieces about numerous issues. The second one would be the digest blogs which merely summarize others’ opinions and proven facts through articles. The next one is advocacy blogs, similar to the first one at the first glance, but what differentiates them is that advocacy blogs focus on one particular issue. The fourth type kind of reminds us to ‘how to’ guide books, called the popular mechanics blog. The fifth one is the exhibition blogs which function as an ‘online gallery’ to art pieces by amateurs. The next one claims themselves as a ‘media watchdog’, officially called gatewatcher blogs. The eight type merely functions as an online diary as the name goes, the diary. The last type would be news blog where people can find news updates.
Different types of blogs allow us to widen up your window of knowledge as well as keeping us questioning about the credibility that could lead to discussions which ideally would result in a more credible info.
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