Blogging Concerns (2)

(b) Classification of blogs & methods to build blogging communities. Explain briefly types of blogging communities. Then, discuss one blogging community in brief.

Bloggers have created assorted contents that are much to their liking. Hence, due to the wide interest of public, blogs have been categorized accordingly,for users to interact easily.

There are six factors that motivate users to access blog, according to Tremayne (2007),
and it can be classified as below :

-Information Seeking/Media Check
-Convenience
-Personal Fulfillment
-Political surveillance
-Expression or affiliation

Blogs are categorized as below, according to Technorati.com (2008) :

- Architecture
-Fashion
-Home and garden
-Pet
-Art
-Food and wine
-Literature
-Pet
-Travel
-Health and fitness
-Parenting

Blogging communities refer to a collection of associated blogs that are clustered together. For example, WordPress community has been acknowledged to be the most helpful blogging community, according to (Lisa & Mat 2007). In addition, WordPressusers have been contributing generously to WordPress Codex, which is a collection of How To documents. Through this group 0f people, users share their experiences in hopes to help other users.

References :

Matt, M & Wilson, L 2007,WordPress for Dummies, Maty Mullenweg.

Tremayne, M 2007,Blogging Citizenship, and the Future of Media, CRS Press.

Blog Directory, 2008, online, retrieved 10 November 2008, from http://technorati.com/blogs/directory/lifestyle/architecture