Weblogs have not only rapidly become popular as a new and easily accessible publishing tool for the masses, but its content is becoming ever more valuable as a “window to the world,” an extensive medium brimming with subjective content that can be mined and analysed to discover what people are talking about and why (Elgersma & Rijke, 2008).
Many weblogs are combinations of styles, which makes identifying unique types difficult. The question here topic, style , format and audience does blogs have?
Weblogs that are like journals are generally of interest to friends and family, usually expository and are set up to keep people in touch. Graphic-centric blogs, frequently with photos posted directly from picture phones are usually called moblog (mobile phone blog). Audio weblogs (Podcasting) is when the owner posts frequent audio files of their commentary and there is usually a network of people who update their receive updates. Event, Public Relations and launch weblogs are generally to build a community and update them on the particular topic or product ( Vinson, 2005).
Therefore it can be concluded that despite the many classfications of blogs, it is ultimately a platform for expression for individuals.
References
1. Elgersma, E., and Rijke, M., 2008, Learning to Recognize Blogs: A Preliminary Exploration, University of Amsterdam
2. Vinson, J., 2005, Types of Weblogs, viewed 7th November 2009, http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2005/04/20/types_of_weblogs.html
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