Classification of blogs & opinion about the most appropriate classification approach.

Personal blogs – Traditional blogs. Blogger, WordPress.

Microblogging. Twitter.

Corporate and organizational blogs.

By Genre – Political blogs

Travel blogs (travelogs)

House blogs

Fashion blogs

Education blogs

Niche blogs

Classical Music blogs

By media type – Vlogs

Linklogs

Sketchblogs

Photoblogs

Thumblogs

Typecasting.

Phlogs

By device – Moblog

Sousveillance.                                                                                                

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In my opinion, blogs should be classified as what they advocate for. This means that blogs should be classified by what content they carry, rather than the type of media they use. A blog could use vlogs and writings on their blog. In my opinion, we have to realized that there is no one way to classify blogs as this type of media is very fluid and can be used according to users’ creativity and imagination. Therefore, the only way we could classify blogs in the most efficient way is to differentiate them by their genre they carry. For instance, Political blogs, travel blogs (travelogs), house blogs, fashion blogs, education blogs.