What's your blog?

Typical ways to categorize a blog could be by its subject matter (e.g. personal life, fashion, politics), device (moblog), media type ( e.g. vlog, linklog, tumblelogs), or status of publisher (e.g. business & corporate blogs). But one cannot define a blog by looking at one aspect it since most blogs contain many aspects.

A linklog is obsolete since the introduction of media like Facebook and Twitter. In fact, Twitter has revolutionized microblogging. According to Sussman (2009), bloggers use Twitter much more than does the general population. They use it to promote their blogs and others might use Twitter as a blogging platform by itself, updating it every day like The Diary (Simons 2008).

Source: milblogging.com 

One of the key features about Twitter is the ability to link it to different applications to share things like links, pictures, and videos, very much like The Digest Blog. The Digest Blog act primarily as guides and summaries to things you can access elsewhere, either in the mainstream media or on other blogs (Simons 2008).

Something else similar to The Digest Blog is Storify. Storify uses APIs to pull in real-time data from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and other social networks and services, and allows bloggers or anyone else to filter by keyword and then simply drag and drop the content from those services into a story template (Ingram 2010). Basically, you tell stories with other people’s point of view.

In my opinion, this will soon be a new tool that will again revolutionize the blogosphere and might even bring about a totally new classification of blog.

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Refrences

Simons, M 2008, Towards a taxonomy of blogs, Australian Policy Online, viewed 10 September 2010, <http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-0>.

Sussman, M 2009, Day 5: Twitter, Global Impact and the Future Of Blogging - SOTB 2009, Technorati, viewed 3 September 2010, <http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-5-twitter-global-impact-and/>.   

Ingram, M 2010, Storify Wants to Pull Stories From the Stream, New Emerging Technology News and Trends: GigaOM Tech News, viewed 30 September 2010, <http://gigaom.com/2010/09/29/storify-wants-to-pull-stories-from-the-stream/>.