Blog Types

The vast majority of popular blogs are blogs that comment on current events. To name a few: Gizmodo, Slashdot, News Sites, Political Punditry Sites. I call these "news blogs".

There are also many thousands of blogs that comment on self-absorbed trivialities. These blogs are lost in the shuffle and mostly ignored , except by ones friends. I call these "own blogs" (from 'ownlife' from 1984's newspeak).

There are blogs that focus on topics that do well. They do well mainly because they achieve high search engine relavency for that particular topic. I call these "focus blogs".

There are also blogs, like this one that are trying to be in the middle. Gathering our own personal insights from things that happen to us day by day. I call them "thought blogs". Another good example of a "thought blog" would be www.fredoneverything.net.

Finally there are "meta blogs" which link to other blogs, usually with a one liner attached such as fark.com or boingboing.net. These are popular, however, "meta blogs" create a bizarre Internet phenomenon where there is such a dearth of content to link to that certain memes can explode into worldwide phenomenons in a few days. From the "Star Wars Kid" to "All Your Base Are Belong To Us".

Please leave a comment if you think of another kind?