Monday, November 3, 2008

Blog, blog, blog and blog

There are 6 types of blogs according to Wikipedia.org. The six are divided into personal, corporate, question, media, device, and genre. All six are divided not only by content but also how they are presented and delivered. Different types of blogs is how bloggging communities are created. Blogs ithe the same type of style or same interest could link with each other and create a blogging community.


techtarget.com defines a blogging community or blogosphere is created by bloggers working together in an interactive journalism environment.This is made possible by the symbiotic relationship made possible by links creating their own ecosystem.

An example of a blogging community is nufnang. This blogging community enables bloggers to connect and build communities with the same interest in local region. Nuffnang also enables bloggers to earn an income by becoming a base of advertisments from big companies.



An image representation of the blogosphere taken from discovermagazine.com




References

Nuffnang 2007, Nuffnang, viewed November 4th 2008, <http://www.nuffnang.com.my/>

Wikipedia.org, viewed at November 4th 2008, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs

Techtarget.com. viewd at November 4th 2008, http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci1007574,00.html

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