Blogging Community is described as "blog communities
aggregate the individual and independent blogs of a number of people with a
shared interest, the same cause, similar political views, business interest,
etc" (Kinkeldei, 2007). Bloggers create a community by having the idea of
a social network where they reinforce their communication among different group
of people. They do so, by reading each other blog, commenting and some chat
with each other too.
According to White (2006), there are 3 main types of
blog which are Single Blog / Blogger Centric Community, Central Connecting
Topic Community and the Boundaried Community.
The Single Blog/ Blogger Centric Community is based
on the community to appear as readers comments and getting to know the blogger.
It has only one owner of the blog but it has many commentors in the blog. The building
method for this community is by the increasing number of commentators. Key
commentors on the blogs will attract readers to read and comment as well. Meanwhile,
the commentors do gain by attracting the readers to read in their own blog too.
Central Connecting Top Centric Community is a
network of blogs that is connected by having the same topic or interest. The
community builds through bloggers having mutual interest and gaining through
the relevance and amount of enjoyment a post provides to others.
Figure 3: Boundaried Communities (Source: White)
Boundaried Communities has many blogs coming into
one platform where they have forums and instant mesaging tools. This is where
everyone can discuss at the same time which features a networking stand.
Paul Tan http://paultan.org/
is a blogger who blogs about cars. His blog would be categorized under the
central connecting top community because his blogs contains a relevance to an
audience where they share their common interest about cars. He allows his readers to leave
comments and educate them more about car reviews and what not.
Reference
Kinkeldei, B 2007, 'Forging Connections and Promoting Growth Through Blog Communities',
21 Publish Cooperative Publishing, journal viewed 17 March 2012, journal
retrieved from < http://www.21publish.com/pub/21publish/blogging-whitepaper.pdf>.
White, N 2006, 'Blogs
and Community - Launching a new paradigm
for online community?', The knowledge tree, website viewed 17 March 2012,
webiste retrieved form < http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>.
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