Types of Blogs
There are many different categories of blogs. WordPress.com lists the most
popular categories of blogs as:
·
Personal – This is the broadest category and
includes blogs about personal topics like politics, music, family, travel, and
health.
·
Business – Professionals ranging from realtors
to lawyers who use blogs to share their expertise, and companies who use blogs
to personally engage their customers.
·
Schools – Blogs are a great way for teachers and
students to collaborate on classroom projects.
·
Non-profits – Foundations, charities, and human
rights groups find blogs a great tool to raise awareness and money for their
cause.
·
Politics – Members of parliament, political
parties, government agencies, and activist use blogs to connect with their
constituencies.
·
Military – Members of the military blog to
report what they see happening in various parts of the world and to stay in
touch with their families.
·
Private – Some people make their blogs private
to share photos and information within families, companies, or schools.
·
Sports – Teams, athletes, and fans use blogs to
express and share their passion for various sports.
·
How-to, tips and reviews – There are a lot of
blogs that share tips and reviews about cooking, games, music, books, movies,
etc.
There are several offshoots to the conventional modern blog.
These are:
·
Microblogging – A microblog differs from a
traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and
aggregate file size. Microblogs allow users to exchange small elements of
content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links. These are
sometimes called microposts (Wikipedia, Microblogging).
·
Blogs based on media type – Vlog, a blog
comprising of videos. Linklog, a blog comprised of links. Sketchblog, a site
containing a portfolio of sketches. Photoblog, a site comprised of photos.
Tumblelogs, a blog of short posts and mixed media types (Wikipedia,
Blogs).
·
Blogs based on device – Moblog, a blog written
on a mobile device such as a smartphone or PDA (Wikipedia,
Blogs).
The Reverse Blog – A type of blog that is
characterized by the lack of an actual blogger. It is written entirely by the
users, who are given a topic (Wikipedia, Reverse Blog).
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