Blogging Communities

Basically, blogging community is a group of people with shared common of interest and their passion of blogging. Blogging alone does not just occur via internet. Meeting up or even have social events with one of another bloggers. So the point is, blogging community is not just about sharing their information or passion but it is more to having a great time together and making new friends with the same common interest (The Travel Tart 2009).

Lately, with such networking websites like Facebook and Tweeter, the number of people who used to visit personal blogs tends to decline. Creating a blogging community and to keep blogs alive is by understanding the importance of personal connection with the bloggers. Those who takes their time to leave a comment, it would be best to keep in touch with them or reply on the comment or via e-mail. Therefore, Comment E-mail Responder plugin for Wordpress allows to do both which makes it more convenient (Mueller 2009).

One blog centric community may have multiple authors in a single blog sharing their personal experience or information. Therefore, it is different than a traditional online community where this brings people closer. There would be rules and regulation for the members (White 2006).



Topic centric community arises between the blogs around with shared common interest such as entertainment and they have links from one blog to another via hyperlinks(White 2006).



Boundaried community is where members join this community and are given the opportunity to create blogs. Normally they have discussion board to voice out their opinions or even chat in their column(White 2006).



Global Voices community is topic centric blogging community where bloggers share their experiences from developing countries. This is the part where they also voice out their views of the topic (White 2006). However,acquiring more information among the links from one to another about a topic is not enough because the ideas are just circulating and agreeing among members of the community.



References:

Mueller, E 2009,'How to Create Community on Your Blog (For Wordpress Users)',Blissfully Domestic,viewed 7th April 2010,.

The Travel Tart 2009, 'What is a Blogging Community?',viewed 7th April 2010,.

White, N 2006, 'Blogs and Community- Launching a New Paradigm for Online Community?', The Knowledge Tree,viewed 7th April 2010,.

Classification of blogs and opinion about the most appropriate classification approach

Technically blogging alone does not mean only to express a writer’s thoughts for the day or describing their own personal matters. Blogs comes in many classifications such as subject matter (entertainment, fashion, politics etc) and media type (linklog, sketchlog, tumblelogs etc). According to Cismaru (2010), personal blog is an ongoing diary or a journal bout their personal life experiences. In Malaysia, the most popular and influence personal blogs would be nonetheless Kenny Sia ( Sabahan.com 2007).

While searching for blogs, normally I would seek for the one with a same background interest as me. For instance, my personal blog is about entertainment. I would definitely search for bloggers who blogs on the favourite artist of mine. When I view a blog, I would be more concern of the topic as it provides relevant information of the same interest. The style of it is also important for the readers to be able to read the information clearly. Definitely a beautiful design would be a plus point to the blog but if it is lack of relevant information, it would turn the readers off.

Comparing from one of the type of blogs would be Diary blog with Personal blog which they are similar in terms of contents such as personal lives stories and so forth (Funnel 2008). It is just the name given to that genre where one is diary while other is personal. It used to be very popular back then till other networking sites such as Facebook and Tweeter emerges. From my opinion, blogging on personal stuff will not be as convenient as the networking sites which are more users friendly and a variety of applications to choose from.

References:

Cismaru, DM 2010,'Types of Blogs: Blog Communication in Contemporary Society',viewed 7th April 2010,.

Funnel,A 2008,'A Taxanomy of Blogs:The Media Report',viewed 7th April 2010,.

Sabahan.com 2007, '50 Most Influential Blogs in Malaysia',viewed 7th April 2010,http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia/.

Blogs as current phenomenon and benefits of blogging to the community

More bloggers nowadays tend to make extra income from blogs and majority of them are part-timers. Bloggers earns extra incomes from entrepreneurs as they advertise their brands from their own website on one’s blog (Sussman 2009).



Indeed, blogging became a big hit among politicians especially. Years much later, based on the graph, blogging would just be more on politicians around the world discussing on elections, government issues and so forth.



White (2009) mentioned ever since advertising became a hit on blogs, bloggers in different region have garnered higher average annual revenue more than $6,000.

Comparing bloggers in Europeans and Asia with both having advertising on their blogs tend to make more revenue than the United States bloggers. Surprisingly, three quarters of these successful bloggers are in fact males who they are more likely to be professionals or corporate bloggers.

Basically political blogs is more dominant especially in United States during the election of the new president as well as it plays a part of a deciding factor (Sussman 2009)

Indeed blogging is beneficial to the public in terms of making profit. Advertisers definitely take the opportunity to promote and create awareness in blogs. Thus, bloggers will earn profit from advertisers. Political issues are popular in any countries especially nearing election time. Iran banned journalists from around the state and blocked popular websites. People turned to blogs to know more of the on-going situation in Iran.

References:

Sussman,M 2009,'Day 4: Blogging Revenues, Brands and Blogs: SOTB 2009',Technorati,viewed 4th April 2010, .

Sussman, M 2009,'Day 5: Twitter, Global Impact and the Future Of Blogging - SOTB 2009',Technorati,viewed 4th April 2010,.

White,D 2009,'Day 5: Brands Enter The Blogosphere',Technorati,viewed 4th April 2010,.

Purpose of my blog

The aim of this blog is to analyze and review the issues in publication and design. This blog would be focusing on issues of blogging, media publishing and web-based media. Thus, students and professionals who are related communication field will find this blog beneficial for their future references.