Types of blogs
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The technology of the weblog allows for a very wide range of possible uses. This is a partial selection and it should be noted that many weblogs combine several uses.
Business
The stock market is a popular subject of blogging. Both amateur and professional investors use blogs to share stock tips.
Business blogs are used to promote and defame businesses, to argue economic concepts, to disseminate information, and more.
Clubbox
A clubbox is a type of blog prevalent in East Asia where the owner, upon paying a monthly fee, can post daily personal entries, pictures, and videos and usually has a large amount of bandwidth to share.
Cultural
Cultural blogs discuss music, sports, theater, other arts, and popular culture.
Community
A virtual community web forum based on an actual Ďhysical community in the real world.
Gossip
Gossip blogs have been popular documentations of celebrities in NY and LA.
Link Blog
Link blogs are focused on sharing links with the reader.
Moblog
A Moblog, or mobile blog, consists of content posted to the Internet from a mobile phone (i.e., cellular telephone) or a personal digital assistant (PDA). Moblogs may require special software.
Online diary
In common speech, the term blog is often used to describe an online diary or journal, such as LiveJournal which was one of the earliest uses of blogs. The blog format allows inexperienced computer users to make diary entries with ease. People blog poems, prose, illicit thoughts, complaints, daily experiences, and more, often allowing others to contribute. In 2001, mainstream awareness of online diaries increased dramatically.
Online diaries are part of the daily lives of many teenagers and college students. Friends use blogs to communicate with each other, keeping each other up-to-date with events and thoughts in a non-intrusive manner. The appeal of this form of communication is that the recipient can read whenever it is convenient, and the writer does not need to remember who still needs to be updated with certain pieces of information - it is there, waiting, for whenever people wish to read it.
Popular online destinations for personal blogs include social networking sites such as MySpace and Xanga.
Photoblog
Photoblogs consist of a gallery of images published regularly. Text following the image can be just as important, or not important at all, depending on the user.
Sketchblogs are akin to photoblogs, only focused on sketches and other forms of visual art on a regular basis.
Political
Political blogs receive an increasing amount of media and academic attention - particularly in the US [link], though only a small minority of webloggers produce predominantly political blogs[link]. Most political blogs are news driven, and as such political bloggers will link to articles from news web sites, often adding their own comments as well. Other political blogs heavily feature original commentary, with occasional hyperlinks to back up the blogger's talking points. These blogs have often come under fire for poor fact checking. A warblog is a weblog devoted mostly or wholly to covering news events concerning an ongoing war. Sometimes the use of the term "warblog" implies that the blog concerned has a pro-war slant.
Science
Scientists have mixed feelings about blogging: while some see it as an excellent new way to disseminate and discuss data, others fear that blogs (and other informal means of publication) could damage the credibility of science by bypassing the peer review system.[[Citing sources citation needed]]
Shock Blog
Shocklogs aim by means of shock and aggressive content to attract large audiences. Unhindered by independent and restrictive journalistic boundaries of the established media sharp articles of current affairs and the state of the world are written.
Spam
Spam blogs (splogs) are a form of high-pressure advertising. Like spam e-mails, splogs are characterized by bold lettering and outrageous claims. Affiliated splogs often link to each other to increase their Internet presence. (See PageRank.)
Topical
Topical blogs focus on a niche. For example, the Google Blog covers nothing but news about Google. A blog may fit more than one topical category or may be both topical and general. Blog directories must manage the needs of bloggers, who want to increase readership, and readers, who want relevant search results. One example are blogs that focus on a particular neighborhood or specific issue, such as housing, land use, politics, education, police enforcement.
Vlog
A Vlog, or video blog, consists of blog posts with mainly video content.
Travel
Travel blogs or journals are one of the web's most popular types of blogs as people love to share their vacation stories and photos with friends, family and the web community as a whole. They are also a great way for traveler's to stay in touch with people back home, especially when traveling for extended periods.
Many bloggers simply create their own blog using any of the standard blogging software but many sites have popped up offering specialized services for users to create their own travel blogs and share their photos.
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