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Personal

Bloggers’ personal lives take centerstage in many blogs

Since blogging gained mainstream prominence in 2004, many teenagers have picked up blogging, and it has since become extreme popular among teens. Teenagers often use blogs to vent frustrations, sharing with others the major events in their daily lives. It is also a common practice for teenagers to pen down what they do every day on their blogs, such that distanced friends can keep up to date with them. Strangers do view such blogs. Visitors also often share their opinions by replying on the tagboard, a common feature of a modern blog.

Many adults also keep personal blogs, preferring to focus on corporate life and current affairs.

Collaborative

A collaborative blog is not a type of blog per se. Instead, it is a form of blogging. One individual may create and maintain a blog. However, it is oftentimes more viable to allow different users to write, such as to maximise the amount of content. As such, collaborative blogging allows bloggers to reduce time spent updating the site per person, or increase the amount of content on the blog.

Corporate

An example of a corporate blog: Blogger Buzz

Many business corporations embracing the power of information technology and the Internet have set up corporate blogs. Such blogs are commonly used to advertise for new services, update readers on the status of an ongoing project, as well as discuss the pros and cons of a given product. Information about the company is often included on such blogs. The Google blog is a good example of a corporate blog.

Topical

The Fly Fishing Journal discusses exclusively about the art of fly fishing

Blogs serve many different purposes. Some choose not to document their personal lives, but rather discuss a certain activity. Topics discussed range from fishing and photography to programming and hardware. Tips, experiences and reviews of equipment are often discussed on such blogs. The Fly Fishing Journal is a Singaporean topical blog which discusses fly fishing in Singapore, while Engadget and Gizmodo discusses comsumer electronics.

Spam

Spam blogs, or splogs, are mostly set up automatically by ‘bots’ (computers performing a series of automated functions autonomously), and are intended to promote commercial companies or products. These blogs contain nonsensical or repetitive text, and there is usually mass-linking, or the creation of a great number of unnecessary links. This influences search results in search engines such as Google, which determines a website’s relevance by the amount of other websites that it has been linked to. Spam blogs can cause congestions in blog host servers, taking up precious system resources and bandwidth.