A blog is an online journal with a specific focus and can be part of a blogging community. These communities can be based on similar topics or the same blogging platform. Blogs can belong to multiple communities and can be discovered through directories or links on other blogs.
A “blog” is a contraction for the longer term “web log” and is a word that refers to a sort of online journal for an individual or organization. A blog normally has a specific focus and includes posts about specific types of events or issues. A blogging community is a group of people who post a blog on similar topics or use the same blogging platform. The collective blogging community of all blogs on the web is often referred to as the “blogosphere.”
A blogging community can be connected in several ways. A group of blogs can simply be connected because they use the same blog creation software. It is also very common for a blog community to surround a specific topic. There are hundreds of blogs, for example, dedicated to poetry. The people who run these blogs are poetry editors, literary scholars who focus their studies on poetry, and poets themselves. Since all these blogs have a similar theme, they would be considered part of the poetry blogging community.
Sometimes a blog will have more than one focus. There may be a blog for a publisher who specializes in printing both poetry titles and short story collections. Such an editor would write posts related to both poetry and short fiction. In this sense, the blog would belong to both the poetry blogging community and the short story blogging community. It is quite common for blogs to fall into a number of categories in terms of content and topics covered. Therefore, it also falls into a number of communities.
There are some directories that rank blogs on the web. It is often these types of directories and search engines that group blogging communities into their registries. This type of official community grouping can be useful for people at the beginning of a research project.
A more organic way to discover blogs that have clustered into a community is to look at the links section on a blog. The links section, sometimes referred to as a “blog roll,” will display links to other blogs that the blog owner likes or visits regularly. This gives a clearer idea of which blogs have become related to each other in their blogosphere community.
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