The Blogging Community

The blogging community refers to a group of social supporters with same interest and interaction is done with one another through blog posts, forums and bulletin boards.
The statement is backed by Wei (2004), as she claimed that blogs are often situated within a blog community of similar interests. Wei (2004) also stated that each of these blog communities has its own practices and behaviors, some of which are shaped by explicit community guidelines. Human being convey their message and feelings distinguishably, blogging about what they know in a different manner and when there is the presence of feedback from readers, it completes the blogging community.



1. One Blog Centric Community is a single blogging platform that is owned by one person or organisation. There is a possibility of multiple authors writing in the blog. An example of this community is Stephen Downes.



2. Topic Centric Community is a network formation between blogs. There are no single technological platform, with each blogger selecting their own tool. What links them is hyperlinks, in the form of blogrolls, links to other blogs within blog posts, tagging, aggregated feeds (using RSS), trackbacks and comments. an example for this is Global Voices.



3. Boundaried Community is community with a collection of blogs or information under one blogging platform as host. Often these communities have other tools such as discussion boards, social networking features, wikis and instant messaging built in. The blogs are part of the overall ecosystem. There is less emphasis on RSS and cross linking because those features are built into the technology in other ways. Because they are within a defined boundary, bloggers can see and easily access other blogs. They can, if they wish, link but mostly within this closed system and they seem to link less often outside of the community. This leads to denser and faster possible internal connections, possibly community building. An example for this is Share Your Story (White, 2006).

Global Voices is a blogging community with more than 300 bloggers and translators around the world who provide reports from various blogs and citizen media, by emphasizing on voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media. Millions of people are blogging, podcasting, and uploading photos, videos, and information across the globe, but unless you know where to look, it can be difficult to find respected and credible voices (Global Voices, 2010).

References

1) About Global Voices 2010, Global Voices, viewed 25 August 2011,

2) Wei, C 2004, Formation of Norm in a Blog Community, University of Washington, viewed 25 August 2011,

3) White, N 2006, Blogs and Community, The Knowledge Tree, Australian Flexible Learning Framework, viewed 25 August 2011,