Blogging Community

Blogging Community And Type of Blogging Community

Blogosphere can be used as a place for blogging community to shared similarity. So, what is blogging community? According to Nelson (2010), blogging community is people connect with one another online, people congregate in cyberspace, bound together by interests or causes. Bloggers can create a community if there is some of people who chat and share a similar interest together in a blog.

According to White(2006), there are 3 type of blogging community such as: Blogger Centric Community, The Central Connecting, and the boundaried community.

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 1. Blogger centric community.

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One person or organization can own this blogs. The owner can set certain rules or norms in this blogs. The central idea of this blog is to communicate, build a relationship with other people, and brings people together.

2. Central Connecting Topic Community

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Central Connecting Topic Community is more to network structure than community structure. This community can be created when there are several people share similar topic or interest. An individual still has to maintain their blog, and a link to other blog can be found here.

3. Boundaried Community.

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The biggest power in this community is in the owner. Owner can make a several rules for all the bloggers. Members have to join, register, and make a blog if he/she wants. MySpace, Yahoo 360, and Share Your Story are several tools that can make the member closer.

I will use Malaysia Food, Travel, and Tourism Blogs. (www.vkong.com)
In this blogspot, Central Connecting Topic Community is applied. This blog is giving information about food around Malaysia. People with similar interest and hobby will go this blogs . People could leave comment and choose what kind of food does they want to know as well.

Image from:vkong.com

Image from:vkong.com

Image from:vkong.com

References:
- Nelson, M, Lowe, S 2010, TypePad for Dummies, online, retrieved 25 March 2012 http://books.google.com.my/books?id=07s5HsHDizkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Vkeong 2011 Mayalsia Food, Travel, & Tourism, online, retrieved 25 March 2012 http://www.vkeong.com/page/207/
- White, N 2006 Blogs and Community - launching a new paradigm for online community?, online, retrieved 24 March 2012 http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-–-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community

                                              

Classification of blogs

BLOGS. Generally when people heard about blogs, they will have perception blog is a place where people tell their story Blogger can share information, opinions, knowledge, promote product and services as well by using blogs (Blick, 2011)

According to interview of Margaret Simons by Funnell in 2008 about “A Taxonomy of Blog”, there are 9 classification of blogs based on the function.

- Pamphleteering blogs: In this blogs individual or group of individual can put a brief essay or expressing a strong point from them. Pamphleteering also known as political blog.

- Digest blogs: This is a blog where the author collects information from the mainstream media, or blogs. And there is links for the source.

- Advocacy blogs: Almost same like pamphleteering blogs and it is pushing some point of view on certain issues.

- Popular Mechanics blogs: Give information on how to do something, and how the things work.

- Exhibition blogs: A place where you can find poetry, blogs, and picture. Artists or writers maintain this blogs.

- Gatewatcher blogs: Group of people who gives attentions to the media.

- Diary: Place where people share their experience and story.

- Advertisement blogs: Place to promote company or product.

- News: Find and publish the news to society.

On the other hand, according to Cesario (2011), there are several classification of blogs such as: diary/personal, informative/tips, travel/experience, food, inspirational, review, and celebrity or fashion blogs. On my opinion, there are similar category that is same from Funnell and Nicky. But classification from Funnell is better than Nicky because the classifications give specific information and already include a wider range for all blogs in Internet.

References:
-Blick, D 2011,  The Ultimate Small Business Marketing Book, online, retrieved 24 March 2012 from http://books.google.com.my/books?id=OEcrgtE21RQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

-Funnell, A 2008, A Taxonomy of Blogs, online, retrieved 24 March 2012 from http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/mediareport-1999/a-taxonomy-of-blogs/3186686

-Cesario, F, A 2011, four type of blogs and how to use it, online, retrieved 25 March 2012 from http://www.sitepronews.com/2011/09/12/four-types-of-blogs-and-how-to-use-them/

Issues in Publication and Design

The Purpose of This Blog

Dubidu blog is a place to find informations about publication and design. The purposes of this blog are to share information and complete all the tasks on issues in publication and design (IPD) subject.

Generally, in this blog, I will provide better informations and as well as discussing about publication and design issues in the society lately. Combining texts and pictures, analyzing the target audience of the publication, editing the news, creating good designs, criticizing the designs in media with proper way, as well as creating an efficient and effective message for the target audience, are some advantages that we could get by learning issues in publication and design.

The target audiences of this blog are bloggers and students who are curious and would like to learn furthermore about issues in publication and design.

Phenomena and Benefit of Blog


Nowadays, social networking like blog play an important role in our life. Blog is a short name for web blog and it typically refers to a web sites that publishes or post articles (Jenkins, 2009.). Blog can be used to share an information, picture, experience, diary, opinion, and product. A person could be called as a produsage in blog. Produsage is a participatory environment which break down the boundaries between producers and consumer and instead enable all participants to be users as well as producers of information and knowledge (produsage 2007)

There are more than 200 million blogs in the internet (Allen, 2011.). Generally, almost all the blogs in the internet in English language. There are 60 until 80 percents of blogs are abandoned within one month, many after only a single post (Calson analytics, 2009.). Two-third of bloggers are male and 65% of bloggers are 18-44 years old (Technorati, 2010.). Most blogger are located in U.S (29.2%), U.K (6.75%), Japan (4.9%), Brazil (4.2%), Canada(3.9%), Germany (3.3%), Italy (3.2%), Spain (3.1%), France (2.9%), Russia (2.3%), and Malaysia (1.7%) (Sysomos, 2010.).

Personal, corporate, questioning, by media, and by gender (politic) are several types of blogs (Harris, 2008.). Personal blogging, another popular online activity in China (Herold, 2011.). On 50 tops bloggers in Malaysia, most Malaysia bloggers write about personal things (28%), politics (16%), and technology (16%), and other more general theme (Sabahan, 2007.). Example of blogs in Malaysia: masak-masak.blogspot, malaysiabloggers.com, and educationmalaysia.blogspot. 

Personal blog is famous because we can write anything what we want and we can express our idea.Using weblogs in your business environment can increase employee communication, and knowledge, save time, and resources, and build reputation, and confidence. (Keaggy, 2002.). By gender, blog can be used to promote the candidate of the next president when there is a election.

References:
-Cross, M 2011 Bloggerati Twitteratt: How Blogs and Twitter Are Transforming Popular Culture. Accessed16March2011.
http://books.google.com.my/books.id=YD79skpxAxoC&pg=PA33&dq=what+is+blogs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1BJkT97gAsSGrAfezJi9Bw&ved=0CE0Q6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=what%20is%20blogs&f=false
-Herold, D, K, Marolt. P 2011 Online Society in China: Creating, celebrating, and instrumentalising the online carnival. Accessed 16 March 2011. http://books.google.com.my/books?id=-DA9vA8vsKYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
-Keaggy, B 2002 Network World. Accessed 17 March 2012. http://books.google.com.my/books?id=CBkEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false 
-Produsage.org 2007. Produsage: A Working Definition. Accessed 15 March 2012. http://produsage.org/node/9
-Syomos 2010 Inside Blog Demographics. Accessed 16 March 2012. http://www.sysomos.com/reports/bloggers/
-Technorati 2010 WHO:Bloggers, Brand and Consumer - Day 1 SOTB 2010. http://technorati.com/social-media/article/who-bloggers-brands-and-consumers-day/