c) Types of blogging communities & the structure of one blogging community

Blog Communities

The community of all blogs were called the blogosphere. People with the same interest then will link one blog to another blogs which will be include in MyBlogLog (Wiki, 2007).

In addition, blogging communities usually consist of people and bloggers from the same interest, Karrer (2007) said “I've been working with Dave Lee on theLearning Circuits Blog (LCB) for about 8 months now. About two months into it, I finally began to understand that the LCB was different than an individual blog because it was designed to serve a community.” So if someone comes from different interest they will not be able to give comment on that certain blog.

Types of Blog

There are many kinds of blog and some example of the blog types are:

1) Personal Blogs

2)News Blogs

Source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog (2009)

3) Campaign Blogs - Unity

Source : http://www.malaysianartistesforunity.info/?p=65 (2008)

4) Tech Blogs - The financial Times

source : http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/(2009)

5) Organizational Blogs -

Utah Government Information

Source : http://radio.weblogs.com/0115389/(2003)

Based on White. N (2006), it has mentioned about the blog based community that consist of three main patterns which are Single Blog community, Topic Centric community and Boundaried community. These three patterns have an elements that are related to each other in a some ways. However, each patterns have a different strategies to make a blog as a medium for developing bloggers in terms of the design of the blogs, the content of social pf control an power and each of the pattern plays a role of the subject matter in any issues. In my opinion,the single blog community are more flexible as it is the first form of blog based community to emerge as readers begin returning to early bloggers’ sites, commenting.the blog could owned by more than just one blogger but this is not an aggregation of blogs. It is best exemplified by well known or ‘A List’ bloggers and it is best use for educational field or category. Image below are the picture of the Single Blog community.

Source : http://tihane.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/blogcentricsmaller.jpg

Therefore, blogs offer a unique channel for developing and maintaining relationships between organizations and publics.(Miller. B. M, 2006)

References

1) Karrer, T, 2007, “Types of blogs discussion: e-Learning Technology”, eLearning Technology, viewed on 12^th November 2009, <http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/03/types-of-blog-discussions.html>.

2) White, N, 2006, "Blogs and Community - launching a new paradigm for online community?," viewed on 17th November 2009,

<http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-–-launching-a-new paradigm-for-online-community>.

3) Kelleher, T., and Miller, B. M. (2006). "Organizational blogs and the human voice: Relational strategies and relational outcomes." Journal of Computer- Mediated Communication, 11(2), article 1.

4) Gaman, 2007, "50 most influential blogs in Malaysia", viewed on 16th November 2009,

<http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/>.

5) Taricani, E. 2007, 'Communities of Blogging: Extensions of Our Identities', American Communication Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3, retrieved 15th November 2009, >.