Blog Types and Case Study

As mention in the earlier post, blogs are a hybrid of textual and visual materials. There are several types of blogs, such as:

• art (artlog)
• photographs (photoblog)
• sketches (sketchblog)
• videos (vlog)
• music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting)
• Micro-blogging (short post blogs)


Case Study-Blogging communities

Flickr, this is a photo and video based websites, it creates an online community for those who has interest on sharing photos and video. This popular website was created on February 2004, and owned by Yahoo.

This photo site, provide users to upload photos and in the mean time organize, apply tags to photos for better viewing and search purpose. Besides that, users can also choose their visual materials to be view in private or public status. This has gives a choice of privacy to the user whether to expose their photos

Where else, FlickrBlog is the companion blog of Flickr, which created a similar platform as the blog, but it is more has a specific photo base theme. This blog is also considered as one of the examples of photoblog.

The biggest feature of this blogging community is where the users can leave comments on the photos. Photos are also being tag so that when it was mentioned in the blog, it could link the relevant photos to others’ who has a similar photo. So this link has created a virtual community ties with each Flickr member.