Categories to Blogs

Blog catagories: is there such a thing?  I thought blogs were all just mindless, unorganized rantings and chatter.  This is not true.  With the popularity and increase of blogs, they now see wide spread use.  Here's a few instances of different blogs, what they're used for, and how to identify them:

Portfolio:  blogs dedicated to showing off works of art, photography, etc of artists with contact information included to help the artist become better known and to attract potential employers.  Usually they include lots of large pictures of artistic work.

Scrapbooks:  blogs that serve as an online 'journal' to their creators.  I like to think of these as being similar to Facebook except it's dedicated to just you.  Typically you'll see lots of pictures that are not too big with lots and lots of texts, stories, rants, etc on a person's personal life that they would like to share with the world. 

Personal Blogs:  blogs that share a central theme, example: video games, politics, a hobby of the creator.  These sites are dedicated to talking about one thing or multiple things and usually the creator likes inspiring talk and conversation around the community.  You can tell you're looking at one if here's multiple blog posts about certain events and themes with a few pictures but mostly text.

Business:  these blogs are dedicated to promoting and communicating with a company and/or corporation.  Mass media has since a large change and the internet has become a critical element to advancing communication, so it is only natural for companies to advertise themselves online.  Business blogs are characterized by a neat appearance with the logos and identity clearly seen.  Usually they include posts about company products, calendar of events, and contact information. 

Blog creation:  blogs about creating blogs!  These are usually created by artists, internet savants, or graphic designers/firms that wish to offer their services of creating blogs for others.  They typically include contact information, examples of work, price listings, FAQs, the designer's portfolio, and terms of agreement. 

Tutorials:  blogs dedicated to helping fellow bloggers!  Blogs usually about tips, tricks, and how to's on making blogs.  They are characterized by lots of pictures, posts on how to create something new within blogging, design, hobbies, software, the internet, etc.  Lots of pictures are often posted to show step-by-step instruction from start to finish on how to accomplish a new ability!