Community and cataloging of Blogs

The Blogosphere: The collective community of all blogs is known as the blogosphere. Since all blogs are on the internet by definition, they may be seen as interconnected and socially networked, through blogrolls, comments, linkbacks (refbacks, trackbacks or pingbacks) and backlinks. Discussions "in the blogosphere" have been used by the media as a gauge of public opinion on various issues. A collection of local blogs is sometimes referred to as a bloghood.

Blog search engines: Several blog search engines are used to search blog contents, such as Bloglines, BlogScope, and Technorati. Technorati, which is among the most popular blog search engines, provides current information on both popular searches and tags used to categorize blog postings. Research community is working on going beyond simple keyword search, by inventing new ways to navigate through huge amounts of information present in the blogosphere, as demonstrated by projects like BlogScope.

Blogging communities and directories: Several online communities exist that connect people to blogs and bloggers to other bloggers, including BlogCatalog, MyBlogLog, and YULBlog, a combination online and offline community for people with blogs based in Montreal.

Blogging and advertising: It is common for blogs to feature advertisements either to financially benefit the blogger or to promote the blogger's favorite causes. The popularity of blogs has also given rise to "fake blogs" in which a company will create a fictional blog as a marketing tool to promote a product.

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What is Blogosphere?

Blogosphere is a collective term collected from all blogs and their interconnections. All the blogs are connected together as a blogs community (or as a collection of connected communities) or as a social network.

A social network is a social structure made of generally individuals or organizations that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, sexual relationships, dislike, conflict or trade.

Sites that tracking Blogosphere,such as Technorati, BlogPulse, Tailrank, Spinn3r and BlogScope track the interconnections between bloggers. Taking advantage of hypertext links which act as markers for the subjects the bloggers are discussing, these sites can follow a piece of conversation as it moves from blog to blog. Sites also exist to track specific blogospheres, such as those related by a certain genre, culture, subject matter or geopolitical location.

Technorati: is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo. Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek Çelik was the site's Chief Technologist. Technorati uses and contributes to open source software. Technorati has an active software developer community, many of them from open-source culture. The site won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show. It was also nominated for a 2006 Webby award for Best Practices, but lost to Flickr and Google Maps.

BlogPulse: is a search engine for blogs. It was initially created by IntelliSeek, and was later acquired by the Nielsen Company. More about BlogPulse, you read more here.

Tailrank: is a site that provides a feed of content on the World Wide Web that's being discussed across the blogosphere. The site continuously scans blogs that have been registered with it, and composes an index of "top stories" that have been cited by the various blogs it has scanned.

Spinn3r: built by the same company as Tailrank, is a web service for indexing the blogosphere. It provides raw access to every blog post being published - in real time.

BlogScope: is a search engine for the blogosphere with advanced analysis and visualization technology. BlogScope is outcome of an ongoing research project at the University of Toronto. As of Oct 2007, the system is indexing around 120 million articles from 14 million weblogs.

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Types of Blogs

How many types of blogs?

As I've known, there are many different types of blogs, differing not only in the type of content, but also in the way that content is delivered or written.

=>3 types of blogs I've noticed are:

1.Personal blogs:

The personal blog is written in the way of an ongoing diary or commentary by an individual. It is the traditional and most common blog. Personal bloggers usually write about their own daily life, their personal interest..,etc. The blogger of such blog often take pride in their blog posts, even if their blog is never read by anyone but them. Blogs often become more than a way to just communicate; they become a way to reflect on life or works of art.

2.United blogs:

United blog, known as corporate blog, can be private, as in most cases, or it can be for business purposes. Blogs, either used internally to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or public relations purposes are called corporate blogs.

3.Question blogging:

It is a type of blog that answers questions. Questions can be submitted in the form of a submittal form, or through email or other means such as telephone or VOIP. Many question logs use syndication such as RSS as a means of conveying answers to questions.

I think, there will be many other types of blogs. Please give more types by posting your comments below,thanks!

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