Thanks to Doug and Tammy for the stimulating conversation on blog types. I still haven’t settled on what I think the most useful typology breakdown might be, but I had one more thought on what functionally makes network blogs different from typical news-y or journal-y blogs: the interface.
Interaction with public blogs typically takes place through the blog’s web page, as well as through some of the networking features for reading (like rss) and interacting (like pings). Yet with all of the different blogging platforms, these forms of engaging the content still have sort of a techie feel. My big assumption here is that the average internet user doesn’t care about things like xml or trackback URLs. Social networking site blogs are starting wrap these features into their systems in a very easy, seamless way.
As these functions become more integrated, how does it change perceptions of and interaction with the medium? Perhaps everyone is right and blogs are becoming less and less traditionally “blogs.” What shall we call this new time-based-content-sharing creature?