In recent years, the ascendancy of blogs has introduced a new platform for communities and according to White (2008), there are three types of blogging communities that is illustrated below.
Source : Australian Flexible Learning Framework, 2006.
One Blog Centric Community
This blog community is owned by an owner or organisation and may have multiple authors in a blog.
Topic Centric Community
This blog community is a network formation between blogs that are closely related based on the common interest or topic of the bloggers.
Boundaried Community
This blog community is a collection of blogs and blog readers of a variety of topics under one platform or single site.
Each these blog communities are unique having its own practices and behaviors, some of which are shape by explicit community guidelines. (Wei, 2004) Bloggers around the world have their own identity and each blogs serve a different purpose to others, hence a community is born. Which community do you belong to?
References:
Owyang J, 2007, "Defining the term: online community", last viewed at 29 September 2010, http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/12/28/defining-the-term-community/>
Wei, C 2004, Formation of Norm in a Blog Community, University of Washington, viewed 19 April 2011, <http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/formation_of_norms.html>
