TECHNOLOGY: Genres of blogging?

As previously mentioned, there are many different types of blogs ranging from the professional and official, to the personal and casual. Here are some of the types and ways they can be grouped:

PERSONAL BLOGGING
This type of blogging is the most common and also the traditional genre of blog. Personal Blogs can take on a diary like structure; with entries detailing the events and encounters of a blogger's life or can just be an open discussion of the blogger's personal thoughts and opinions. In some cases it becomes a way of keeping in touch with family and friends. For example, my uncle keeps a blog so that the people he knows can keep informed about my cousins, Ciara and Finn as they live in Ireland- a long way away from anyone else in the family!

CORPORATE BLOGS
A blog can be totally private or only open to selected readers making it ideal to post information that only a group of people need access to. For example a business might post a blog about targets or updates that only its employees can have access to. Corporate blogs can also be external as they may involve PR, Branding or Marketing and be used as a way of publicising the business.

MEDIA TYPE
Blogs can be separated into media types such as a Vlog (a blog of videos), a Sketchblog (a blog of sketches and drawings) and a Photoblog (a blog of photos). A blog which contains a mixture of these is often referred to as a Tumblelog and you can also find an Artlog: a blog containing art from different bloggers, used as a way of publicising and sharing art.

DEVICE
Blogs can also be separated into groups depending on the device used to write them. For instance if a blog was written using the internet on a mobile phone it is referred to as a Moblog.

GENRE
Blogs can be separated into genre too seeing as there are literally thousands of blogs around. Blogs go into categories such as Fashion blogs, Political blogs, Hobby blogs and Legal blogs (often called Blawgs). There is also a type of blog designed soley for people to spam, although it is uncommon. This is called a Splog.