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Blogging Definitions: Types of Blogs – Part 1

Filed under: Blogging Terms — Doug Williams @ 4:53 am

This blog entry was posted on October 21, 2007.

As with any new technology, blogging has its own jargon. We are all familiar with business blogs and personal blogs. Here are definitions of other types of blogs.

  1. Anonoblog – a blog run by an anonymous author(s). The blog may display some information about the author(s), but not reveal the author’s true identity.
  2. Audioblog - A blog that mainly publishes audio files (music or podcasting) sometimes with text and keywords for search engine optimization.
  3. Blawg – Commonly called lawyer blogs. These are generally by lawyers, law students or law professors and focus on commentary about the law.
  4. Blook – This is a shortening of “looks like a book” and is a book created from a blog. Typically published in a serialized form one chapter at a time.
  5. Celeblog – A blog written about or by a celebrity. Usually focuses on news, gossip and often contains embarrassing or revealing paparazzi photos.
  6. CEOBlog – A blog maintained by a chief executive officer of a company.
  7. Clog – A shortened form of Corporate Blog. This is a blog published and used by a company or corporation to reach its organizational goals.
  8. Crisis Blog – A blog created to deal with natural disasters such as Katrina and the Indonesian tsunami. Also refers to a blog dealing with a public relations crisis for an organization.
  9. Dark Blog – A non-public blog (e.g. behind a firewall). This usually uses a desktop blogging client or an off-line blog management tool.
  10. Edublog – An education related blog. This can include blogs written for or by teachers. They can be used for educational policy or classroom assignments.
  11. Flog – Short for Fake Blog. This is a ghostwritten blog written as a marketing tool. Similar to astroturfing (fake grass roots campaign).
  12. Medblog – A blog that deals with health and medicine.
  13. Milblog – A War Blog or Military Blog is a blog about the military or covering news events concerning an ongoing war.
  14. Photoblog – A blog whose primary content is photos. The emphasis is on the photography, not just images that explain or illustrate the text.
  15. Political Blog – A blog that comments on politics. Political blogs often have a clearly stated political bias
  16. Shocklog – These are blogs that use and slander to sling mud at current affairs, public individuals, institutions and so on. Originated in The Netherlands.
  17. Sideblog – A smaller blog placed within the sidebar of a blog. This blog within a blog is used as an easy way to list out interesting links. Sometimes called a link blog.
  18. Splog – Short for Spam Blog. This is a blog which is intentionally fake and doesn’t add any written value. Used to increase Page Rank or get ad impressions.
  19. Storyblog – Blogs used to publish stories, poetry and other creative writing; usually by aspiring writers.
  20. Vlog – Short for video blog. This is a blog that mainly publishes videos. Video podcasting is sometimes called vodcasting.
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7 Comments »

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  6. What would you call a blog that is mean and accusatory of other bloggers but does not allow comments?

    Comment by Sherry — February 8, 2010 @ 9:45 am

  7. Sherry,
    A troll is a blogger who attacks the points of view of other bloggers. A Bloll (blog troll) is a commenter whose sole purpose is to attack the views expressed on a blog and incite a flamewar.

    Comment by Doug Williams — February 9, 2010 @ 4:05 am

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