Blogs are typically topic driven, many common bloggers have the need to write anything that strikes them as current and blog worthy. Having that said, blogs now are getting harder to be classified. There’s no saying whether or not a blogger will stick to a particular subject matter or genre.
Style combinations in blogs are what bloggers tend to do to promote their blogs. Piersall (2011), Mentions that, by doing so, viewers will be attracted to log on to a blog that offers a variation mix of text, pictures, music, videos and colours. Identifying a blog could be made easy by looking at what type of category it is in. The categories are from media to type of publisher. For example of a media category, Flickr is known as a photolog, while Youtube is known as a vlog. Mackney (2009), classifies Facebook and Twitter as Microblog and lifelog, because the expansion of friends on Facebook is about endless and long lost friends could be identified almost immediately through a mutual friend. Twitter on the other end, is more about pro-life active bloggers that would just tweet almost anything that come across them in their daily lives. And these are just a few simple ways of identifying a blog.
Figure 1: Media categories
Figure 2: Political blog
When classifying a blog, Simons (2008), has argued that most politicians usually blogs not to necessarily share their views on a political issue but rather to gained political status and increased their popularity among voters. They then will be opinionated towards all sorts of current events to increased viewers’ visits. This type of blog has been classified as political blogs but more specifically by Simons as pamphleteering blogs. A genuine political blog from my research is about the truth and accuracy. According to Davis (2009), a well debated political blog should have a well balance argument that is transparent and also free of biasness on a particular issue. What would make a good political blog is that the publisher would offer some solutions or suggestions towards the issue. Hence, this is how one would classify two blogs that are dealing with politics edging one of them leaning on pamphleteering.
I think the more permissible way to classify a political blog is to do a background check on the politician itself. By doing this, you would know whether or not the blogger is credible enough to be offering his or her views on an issue. Another method will be checking comments left by their audiences on the blog, this way you can be assured that the blogger is genuinely sincere about their views.
References
Davis., R., (2009). Typing politics: the role of blogs in American politics. OX: Oxford University Press.
Piersall., W., (2011). Mom blogging for dummies. NJ: Wiley Publishing Inc.
Richard Mackay Website, (2009). Photoblog, Moblog, Microblog, Vlog… (Online). Available at: http://richard.mackney.com/photoblog-moblog-microblog-vlog (Accessed on: 25/08/2011).
Simons., M., (2008). A taxonomy of blogs. (Online). Available at: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript%29 (Accessed on: 25/08/2011).
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