Blog adoption is a popular phenomenon where bloggers adopt the blog that agrees with their agenda. More and more people adopt the blog and with the help of tagging and mashups, the bloggers become a particular blog community, Nancy White (2006, p.1 of 18).
Tagging refers to a key word that bloggers attach to their posts. Through it, a prolific blogger can easily help people locate other blogs. Mashups refers to website that uses content and from various sources to create a new service.
Basically, according to Nancy White, there are three types of blog-based communities which includes;
1) The Single Blog or Blogger Centric Community,
2) The Central Connecting Topic Community and
3) The Boundaried Community.
The first, The Blogger Centric Community, is “hub and spoke” model, for example, involving only one blog or blogger. This blog belongs to one owner or organisation (although there could be one or more writers) whose identity is well-known and who is the sole link among the bloggers.
The second form is Central Connecting Topic Community. It is a spin off blog from the first, where key commentators create their own blogs and other bloggers join them. This blog community is a “network formation.” Bloggers here as well as bloggers in Topic Centric Community are linked by a mutual passion or topic. For example, dancers such as ballerinas create a blog to talk about their passion.
Source: http://www.balletblog.net/
What link them is hyperlinks, individual links to other blogs and tagging. Tagging refers to a key word that bloggers attach to their posts which can help people locate other blogs.
The third, Boundaried Community is a “collection” of blogs and blog readers hosted on a single site or platform. Members register to take the chance to create a blog, for example, Blogspot.com and My Space.com. Bloggers are within a defined boundaring and have every access to other blogs within it. They get connected to each other faster. Blog Centric and Boundaried Communities sits on a single platform. The community is alive and well in the Blogosphere.
Source: http://www.myspace.com/
References:
‘My Space’ 2009, My Space, viewed 11 November 2009, http://www.myspace.com/
‘Ballet Image of the Day’ 2009, Ballet Blog, viewed 11 November 2009, http://www.balletblog.net/
White, N 2006, ‘The Knowledge Tree: an E-journal of Learning and Innovation’, The Knowledge Tree – Going Communal, no.11, September, pp. 1-18, (online The Knowledge Tree), viewed, 11 November 2009, 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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