Types of Blogs – A Taxonomy
Tom Haskins has defined four types of blogs and different motivations for blogging [via Creative Think]:
- Distraction blogs.
- Archive blogs.
- Conversation blogs.
- Democratic blogs.
Each type has a different value to its respective bloggers. Of course some blogs may be a hybrid of two or more types – particularly #2 + #3. Haskins also talks about three transitional forms of blogs, which do not fit into the above four categories.
Top 100 Media Blogs
Mequoda Blog publishes their own Top 100 media blogs list, with a break down for a number of categories: # of unique visitors (UV) from the USA, # of sessions per UV, # of pageviews per UV, # of seconds per UV, and the origin of the brand. In the top 10, there is one media blog with a newspaper origin (#2, USA Today) and one with a TV network origin (#7, MSNBC). All the rest began life online.
The good news for print publishers is that a signficant number of media blogs in the rest of the Mequoda Top 100 are of newspaper, book, magazine, or newsletter origin. However, contrast this statistic with the fact that these sites are also amongst the lowest in terms of number of sessions per UV (i.e., repeat visitors). Which means they have some work to do in drawing back visitors.
Where To Sell Your Blog
So maybe your blog isn’t in Mequoda’s Top 100 media blogs list. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have value that someone else might want. If you’re thinking of selling your blog or website, chek out Amit Agarwal’s suggestions at the ever-popular Digital Inspirations, which includes a short list of resources.
Originally posted on March 16, 2007 @ 7:44 pm
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