Classification of Blogs

Since blogging are getting more and more popular, different types of blogs had also being introduced. Besides that, each posters might posting different types of blogs for different reasons. There are several types of blog according to its classification.

According to subject matter:

• Politics (Donklephant)
• Fashion (Fashionising)
• History (Speaking of History)
• Movie (My Movie Blog)
• Law (Sentencing Law & Policy)
• Art (Roberta Fallon & Libby Rosof)

According to device:

• Moblog or mobile blog: Moblog is a blog that published to the internet from a mobile or other mobile devices that normally includes photos or camera phones (Wikipedia.com 2010). Example of moblog is Justin Bieber Fan Page

According to media type:

• Linklog: Linklog is a collection of URL (hyperlink) that the maintainer consider enough to collect (e.g Fashion Blog)
• Vlog: video-based journal that posted online (e.g Eri Peng)
• Sketchlog: blog that contain sketch art work (e.g Lubasa Sketchlog)
• Tumblelog: blog that contain with photos, quotes, video, features links that usually used to share author's creations, discoveries or experiences (e.g Austin Kleon)

According to status of publishers:

• Business blog (Blog Business World)
• Corporate blog (Zappos)

References

Wikipedia.com 2010, Mobile Blogging, viewed 18 April 2010, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_blogging)