Blogging communities.

Blog community are people who have same interest on same topic. Ways to create a community is by creating hyperlinks, chat, tag links and comment post. This way able to help the author to be more interactive and help increasing the viewers. 

In addition, blog community is where people have similar interest and sense of belonging, ideas, and passions. Blog community help people to connect with each other, because they tend to make friends in virtual world. 

There are many ways of how to build blogging community 

1. find friends through blog.
2. comment on their post.
3. Go to many author as you possible to get many feedbacks.

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According to White (2006), there are 3 types of blogging communities:

One blog Centric Community

~> Known as a single blog and it is owned by one owner or organization. Help to make the readers to be a part of one community tho they aren't able to do the topic. 

2. Central Connecting Topic Community

~> Both power and identity are in this community. The members are into each other, or lets say they support each other. They share same ideas and focusing on certain topics that is current on news. 

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  Boundaries Community

~>  Compilation of blogs as they easily access to each other. 

It usually works as some group or single discussion board.

For example, I fall into the blog called 'Irvina's blog', which is actually the bloggers who have the same interest with Irvina's post. 

This kind of blog that I'm following is entering the methods of Central connecting topic community. 

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References:


1. Blogging, The Phenomenon: Text Based 2006, Thinkquest, viewed on 23 March 2012 < http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01130/typesofblogs_textbased.html>

2. White, N 2006, Blogs and Community-Launching a new paradigm for online community? , viewed 23 March 2012, < http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-–-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community >

Classification of blog and its opinion.

According to Sun, blog is an online diaries that managed by software that provide a single publishing. Based on classification theory, Margareth (2008) came up with 9 divided blogs, such as:

Pamphleteering Blogs

When people arguing about one statement and responding the facts through the media.

Digest Blogs
known as a guide that readers would love to find out.

Advocacy Blogs
cover and provided by a certain group from political side.

Popular Mechanic Blogs
offering some training, advices and help in order to giving an advantage to readers about some specific information.

Exhibition Blog

when the author using the art and any unique creation in order to attract the readers to come to their blog.

Gatewatcher Blogs
some talented people of public events watching your blog and become the gatekeeper of media.

Diary Blogs
 pour the feeling and excitement into their blog.

Advertisement Blogs
is a blog where it designed to promote.

News Blogs. 
 inform an audience with the current news that happen in society.

Media types:

vlog - is short video blog and contains video clips. Example: youtube

linklog - the time when you can link to other blog by just clicking. Example: Lisanova.

photolog - contain of photos and able to share publicly. photobucket

As a reader, I tend to look at the audience which are the column of the followers of the authors blog in order to make sure whether the blog is interesting or boring. I also focusing on the style of the blog. I personally prefer a white and simple background with unique header for the readers to crave more. 

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References. 


1. Sun, A, Suryanto, MA & Liu, Y 2007, Blog Classification Using tags: An Empirical Study, pp. 307 - 316, viewed 23 March 2011, <http://www.cais.ntu.edu.sg/~axsun/paper/sun_icad107.pdf>

Blog as current issues.

Most people choose blog as a medium exchange of conventional journalism. Naughton, J states that combination between digital convergence and networking has reached to higher new level. On the other hand, the articles by the Technorati Media with the titled 'State of the Blogosphere 2011 also states that there are more and more people using blog as an addition of social media, personal satisfaction and mostly all blogger discussing variety of objective topics. 

According to the Technorati Media, blogging has been the biggest development and a trend in the year of 2011 and blogging is so beneficial when it is used in proper usage. In addition, Sobel (2010) states that blogsphere had found the transition of blog where the author could bond with mass media to share their experience.

Blogging is the current issues that happening in the world, there are variety types of it such as diary/personal, cooperative blogs, spam, splogs, vlog, video casts. For your information, the most favorite that people usually used is diary blogs which we personally or publicly post the experience.

Everything in life has its own goal and so does blog too. The purpose of people creating a blog is to express their voices, critics, opinions and views towards other thing. For common bloggers, they will be able to make a blog as the form of their diary book to write their story, thoughts, feels, and sharing some useful experiences. Blog is also become of one the weapons to business as in proof to promote, reportage and persuade people. In conclusion, blog has its own purpose in many different aspects. 

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REFERENCES: 

1. Blogging - The Phenomenon, Types of blogs, viewed 18 march 2012, <http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01130/typesofblogs_othermedia.html>.

2. Naughton, J, Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem, United kingdom, viewed 18 March 2012, <http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf>.

3. Sobel, J 2010, state of blogosphere 2010 Introduciton, viewed 18 March 2012, <http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2010-introduction/>

4. Technorati, 2011, State of the blogosphere 2011, Australia, viewed 18 March 2012, <http://technorati.com/social-media/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2011-part1/>.

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