Classification of Blogs & Blogging Community

According to Australian author and freelance journalist Margaret Simons, blogs can be classified into various types. They include
• Pamphleteering blogs - where an individual or a group of individuals put out a brief essay arguing a point
• Digest blog - usually summarise or to collect material from elsewhere, generally from mainstream media
• Advocacy blog - somewhat similar to pamphleteering except it is usually by a vested interest group or an advocacy group
• Popular Mechanics blog - a collection of information on how to do stuff on any kinds of speciality
• Exhibition blog - also known as vanity publishing, common to craftspeople, artists and writers where they display their work
• Gatewatcher blog - experts actually critique the reporting of their respective fields by the media
• Diary - serve as an online journal, usually personal blogging
• Advertisement - created by commercial companies promoting their product
• News blog - where breaking news are published and bloggers themselves are beginning to attend media conferences

Wikipedia on the hand has its own list of blogs and its classification. And there are categorize in 3 categories.

By Genre
based the different subject matter discussed.
• political blogs
• corporate blogs
• fashion blogs
• spam blogs
• travel blogs
• niche blogs
• dream blogs


By Media
based on the media the blogs are presented.
• vlog
• linklog
• photoblog
• tumblelog

By Devices
based on the devices used to compose the blogs.
• moblog

I personally feel that the style, format and audience makes identifying different blogs much easier. There were a number of similar classifications of blogs from both sources. The only thing different is their names. Blogs such as Personal blogging and diary are parallel. Similar to Question blogging and Popular Mechanics blog. They both provide answers online.

The blogging community
A blogging community can be formed among a group of people that share the same interest. They will have a strong bond or friendship with each other and giving comments or having discussions in their space. For example the Malaysia Alternative Voices, it is a blog for Malaysians voice out their opinions about the country. It can be consider as a political blog.

References:

ABC radio channel, The media report: A Taxonomy of Blogs, viewed 6 June 2009,
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript

Wikipedia 2009, Blog, viewed 6 June 2009,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog