In Asia Pacific, number of blogs has been increasing. The variety of blogs has been widening too many different kinds of blogs example different interest or hobbies. Based on WordPress.com (n.d), there are varieties of blogs example; personal, business, schools, reviews and many more. These blogs are very detailed but it can be grouped into more general ones. As Talwar (2010) classify four types of blogs which is company blogs, personal blogs, general blogs, and niche blogs.
Here are some examples of it: 
- Personal Blogs - http://tziaaa.com/
- General Blogs - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-blog/
- Niche Blogs - http://www.bloggingjunction.com/
Overall, the most common types of blogs are weblog. Perrone (2004) said weblog is a log of the web, a diary-style site in which the blogger links other web pages that they find interesting using entries posted in a reverse chronological order.
According to Simons (2008) differentiate nine types of blogs which included pamphleteering blogs or political blogs, digest blogs, advocacy blogs, popular mechanics blogs, exhibition blogs but some people name it as vanity publishing, gatewatcher blogs, diary blogs, advertisement blogs, and lastly news blogs.
To compare the classification from Simons (2008) and Talwar (2010) shows that each of them has different classification on the types of blogs. As Simons (2008) has classified the types of blogs more detail whereas, Talwar (2010) differentiates them into wider groups. Simons (2008) mostly defines the types of blog into advertising product or services rather than the general groups.
In my opinion, as there are so many types of blogs out there in the web so it is hard for us to specifically divide them into particular groups. A good example has shown in personal blog tziaaa.com (n.d), there are two types of blogs which is dairy blogs and advertisement blogs as the blogger also advertised some product and services that they are interested. Hence, each blogger has not only one type of hobby; they can have several so it is hard for us to classify them into specific types.
References:
- bloggingjunction.com 2011, Start A Forum In Your Blog With vBulletin, online, viewed 1st May 2011, <http://www.bloggingjunction.com/>
- Dell.com n.d, Blogs, online, viewed 1st May 2011, <http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/default.aspx>
- huffingtonpost.com 2011, THE HUFFINGTON POST, online, viewed 1st May 2011, <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-blog/>
- Jane Perrone 2004, What is a Weblog?, online, viewed 1st May 2011, <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2004/may/20/weblogs>
- Margaret Simons 2008, A taxonomy of blogs, online, viewed 1st May 2011, <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript>
- Melissa Smich 2010, Different Types of Blogs, online, viewed 1st May 2011, <http://myhosting.com/blog/2010/04/types-blogs-2/>
- Saksham Talwar 2010, 4 Different Types Of Blogs That Exist!, online, viewed 1st May 2011, <http://www.bloggingjunction.com/4-types-of-blogs/>
- Tziaaa.com n.d, Summit’s mom on facebook, online, viewed 1st May 2011, <http://tziaaa.com/>
- WordPress.com n.d, Types of Blogs, online, viewed 1st May 2011, <http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/>
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