Blogging Community

Blogging community also known as “blogosphere” which are interconnected and socially networked. There are several groups of people who create friends list, give comments, share photos, videos, tags and links. Thus, it also provides chat rooms for them to interact with each other and meet new people. For example a blogging community also known as Blogster, is a social networking system with easy-to- use setting options that enables interaction within an online community (Wikipedia, 2009). Therefore, it is very easy to create a blogging community as long as correct methods are taken into precaution when creating a blog using own theme through tools such as tags, permalink, and comments which link to other blog.

A blogging community, Blogster

According to White (2006) stated that as blogging has gained wider adoptions in three main patterns with a wide variety of hybrid forms emerging between the three, such as the single blog/blogger centric community, the centre connecting topic community, and the boundaried community. The single blog/blogger centric community is the first form of blog based community to emerge as reader begin returning to early bloggers’ sites. The centre connecting topic community blog community is a network formation, for example, Global Voices Community, which create an experience of a shared community. Lastly, boundaried communities are collections of blog and blog readers hosted on a single site or platform.

References:

White, N., 2006, “Blogs and Community- launching a new paradigm for online community?”, viewed on 17 April 2010.
http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-–-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community

Wikipedia, 2009, Blogster, viewed on 17 April 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogster