In Funnell’s (2008) article, Margaret Simons classified blogs into nine categories, which including the pamphleteering blogs, digest blog, advocacy blog, popular mechanics blog, exhibition blog, Gatewatcher blog, diary, advertisement and lastly the news blog.
- Pamphleteering blog: Individual or a group of people who argue certain topics with their strong point of view
- Digest blog: Aggregate and summarise the information from other resources, it can be other people’s blogs.
- Advocacy blog: Similar to pamphleteering blog. But it usually published by people who holding certain interest such as political party, commercial group and others.
- Popular mechanics blog: Blogs that provide information or instruction of how to do and complete of certain task/works.
- Exhibition blog: Known also as vanity publishing. Artist and writers that tend to spread their works.
- Gatewatcher blog: Blogs which is about to observe how the media does by deciding the publishing of news, covering it or now.
- Diary: More about personal life detail.
- Advertisement: Blogs that selling/advertising a product.
- News blog: Blog that provides breaking news.
(Funnell, A 2008)
However, in my point of view, the classification can be shortened due to the similarities, for example, the pamphleteering and advocacy blogs. This is because both of them having a same core purpose by pointing out certain view of the blogger.
Besides, it is quite confuse between advertisement blog and others because the commercial groups can actually offer links and promote their product in other blogs by paying the bloggers but not just in the advertisement blogs.
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