some of you may or may not have seen leiron's most recent blog entry. it's about blogs, and in it he tries to classify and categorize blogs. if i may (and i know i may), i'm going to include some addenda (before you try me on my grammar, let me tell you that addenda is the plural form of addendum, much like how errata is the plural form of erratum and how data is the plural form of datum.) and point out some errata. (let me point out again that i am only correcting, not giving deconstructive criticism.)
NON-RELATED ADDENDUM: (there's a link just below this that will show the whole post. if you're observant enough, you'll see that it's on all posts. in this and other long posts' cases, it will show the whole gist of the blog. although, there is no extra information to be gained by clicking the same link on all my older blogs, and i will tell you when there is if you click. entiende?)
let's do some dissection.
"First, let us define a blog.
Blog - an online diary/journal where it's user(s) may jot down ordinary daily activities, agendas, announcements, etcetera etcetera etcetera."
close, but not quite. a more accurate definition would be:
Blog - derived from weblog. an online diary or journal, where its author(s)/owner(s) record all or any events, daily activities, agendas, announcements, insights, experiences, literature, et al, according to their preferences.
although, wikipedia puts it this way (this is the short end):
A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order). Although most early weblogs were manually updated, tools to automate the maintenance of such sites made them accessible to a much larger population, and the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging".
but anyway, moving on.
"Call me a discriminative blogger, basta call me when i'm at home. Weekends only." if i remember correctly, this is a slight variation of my hirit in LJ. wala lang ;)
"Although somewhat illiterate sometimes" face it. most blogs are illiterate (well, not completely illiterate, per se, but just chock-full of grammatical errors.) it's sad that i can't affect everyone :-(
and if i may add a few classifications:
7) entertainment - there are blogs that have one major purpose: to entertain. noypidity is a good example (not to brag, though :P). some blogs' authors actually pose as other people (check this for a religious leader that leans toward being african-american), of course, to entertain their readers.
8) severely opinionated - people authoring these kinds of blogs are usually close-minded. good example (although rightfully suspended by Livejournal.com) would be 77truthseeker. (he's in my links, but where would you end up if you clicked?) they usually fervently defend their belief and usually won't listen to anyone else (ergo, the smart people).
9) junk - can be considered as a subcategory of eye candy. i'm not going to name any, so as not to offend anyone, but rest assured such a blog exists.
10) literary - can be considered as a subcategory of entertainment. it's usually full of poetic entries and the like. examples: this and this (consider that your rightful plugs, gentlemen).
11) intelligent - maybe, the better side of the epiko category. opinions shaped in the form of well-written articles. a good example would be tito rolly.
12) bulletin board - hence the name, it's for important announcements. this and this are good bulletin boards.
those are good classifications, don't you think? now, let me pass the ultimate question: where does your blog fit in? be honest.
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