b) Classification of Blogs & Opinions About the Most Appropriate Classification Approach

Fruits or vegetables, a car or a bike, and sometimes even 'hot' or 'not' - these are the daily classifications we make in our everyday life, but do we ponder on the different types of blogs out there? Do they even get an appropriately fixed classification or are they just any other droplet in the puddle? To ease all your head scratching, the following will provide you some examples of the different types of blogs.

Subject matter
- Politics -e.g Lim Kit Siang's Blog
- Fashion - e.g I Am Fashion
- History - e.g U.S Intellectual History
- Law - e.g The Korean Law Blog

Device
- Mobile blogging (Moblogs) - e.g Ernie the Attorney

Media type
- Video blogging (Vlogs) - e.g RayWilliamJohnson
- Collection of URL blogs (Linklog) - e.g Iamcal
- Collection of sketches in a blog (Sketchlog) - e.g Rob Sheridan
- Collection of variety of links, such as pictures, videos and short posts (Tumblelog) - e.g Georgia Is Your Friend

Status of publishers
- Business blog - Seth Godin
- Corporate blog - Whole Foods Market

While there are countless ways to classify blogs, transcripts from Funnel's (2008) interview with Margaret Simons points out that there are more analytical ways to sort of blogs.  For instance, Simons suggest that they can be grouped into pamphleteering blogs, digest blogs, advocacy blogs, and exhibition blogs just by observing the structure of the piece, whereas, an easier approach can be implemented by just considering the topic, style, and format. Spotting topic-based blogs are easy due to the straight forwardness of the author; I Am Fashion's blog is an obvious example because the pictures and terms all relates back to the main topic, 'fashion'. Style and format classification of blogs on the other hand can be presented through Rob Sheriden and Georgia Is Your Friend  as both of these reflect on the common look of the blogs - all these blogs look alike.








Reference
Funnel, A 2008, 'A taxation of blogs', The Media Report, viewed 23 August 2011, <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript)>.