This document compares different types of blog sites and provides information on their number of users, type of blog, and tools offered. It evaluates blogs such as Blogger.com, Tumblr.com, Wordpress.org, and Boingboing.net. Blogger.com is one of the first major blogging sites and enables many users to create blogs. Tumblr emphasizes ease of use through short form posting. Wordpress allows customization through themes and plugins. Boingboing is a collaborative blog that offers videos, photos and links to other sites.

1. DIFFERENT TYPES OF BLOG AVAILABLE
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2. Blog Site Information Number of users Type Tools offered (what makes
(the more users, (does one blog different to the
the more the blog other)
popular, greater reach its
impact on expectati
bloggers) ons of
type of
blog?)
Blogger.com Started by Evan No exact figures As a blog A Google account is required
Williams and Meg but millions of hosting to make a blog on this blog
Hourihan at Pyra Labs blogs are site it hosted site. With other blogs
this is not needed you just
in 1999 it was one of created using offers all
sign up to the blog or site. It
the first major blogger.com types of offers the typical blogging
blogging host sites, making it a blogs. tools available to bloggers
encouraging the push popular host to such as changing the css code
button publishing. It create blogs on and posting photos and text
was largely posts. It has an interface for
responsible for post editing and improved
bringing blogging to image handling. New features
include post stamping where
mainstream culture
you can add your location.
by enabling many
bloggers to create a
blog.

3. Blog Site Information Number of users Type (does the Tools offered (what
(the more users, the blog reach its makes one blog
more popular, expectations of different to the other)
greater impact on type of blog?)
bloggers)
Tumblr.com Available to Tumblr says as of Media Like social networks it
the web in February 19th 2012 it type/tumblelog. has put the like and
2007 by had 45.1 million Yes as the blog follow feature in.
Bloggers can share all
David Karp, blogs (wikipedia 1) has many post
types of media from
and and As of July 2010, type features usual photos and video,
emphasizes the site receives tumbled into to different featured
its ease of 25,000 new users one, which is the tools like chat where you
use by each day according purpose of a can blog a conversation
posting as a to Siegler, MG. tumblelog. This is you had. With this blog,
short form (wikipedia 1) These unlike traditional bloggers are able to be
blog stats show that it is a blogging services, anonymous and ask
questions to other
(tumblelog) fast growing blog which have a
tumblr users. Reblogging
and widely used so one-size-fits-all posts are the main
there is a great post format. feature which doesn’t
impact. feature in other blogs.

4. Blog Site Information Number of users Type (does the Tools offered (what
(the more users, blog reach its makes one blog
the more popular, expectations of different to the other)
greater impact on type of blog?)
bloggers)
Wordpress.org Released to As of December Corporate and This blog offers many
the web in organisational themes, like Blogger
2011, the
2003 by Matt blog/filter does. It enables
Mullenweg. wordpress
blog/topic driven plugins that allow the
As a control download
management blog/personal blogger to go beyond
counter had 65
system blog. As a control the basics features
million management and widgets that you
where users
can share downloads system it enables can drag and drop
and (wikipedia 2) so many kinds of making it easier to
contribute to that’s a lot of blogs to be made change the content of
stored data it which has the your blog. It is
users, meaning
is
that it is popular. ability to be any available on mobile so
Collaborative
.It is also built type of blog. that you can edit your
by hundreds blog from there, most
of blogs don’t do.
community
volunteers.

5. Blog Site Information Number of users (the Type (does Tools offered (what
more users, the more the blog makes one blog different
popular, greater reach its to the other)
impact on bloggers) expectation
s of type of
blog?)
Boingboing.net Launched as Users are able to Filter blog. Offers the reader videos
a blog in subscribe to it and it It does and photo’s to look at
2000, it is is also available over reach its along with articles with
collaborativ twitter (121554 expectation hyperlinks that link to
e as a group followers) and s as it has other websites and blogs.
of people Facebook. (29569 many Reader is able to
create the likes) with this many different subscribe with an RSS
blog and followers and likes links linking feed and an archive with
then we can presume that to different the popular topics is
readers read it has many users blogs and shown. Blogs usually
it. that read the blog websites provide an archive to
regularly. Not as and show everything that
many as popular as contains a they have posted but
other blog sites but is wide range sometimes they don’t
still successful as has of topics. show the most popular
been around since posts for example Tumblr.
2000.

6. Blog Site Information Number of users Type (does Tools offered (what makes
(the more users, the the blog one blog different to the
more popular, reach its other)
greater impact on expectatio
bloggers) ns of type
of blog?)
Boingboing.net Launched as Users are able to Filter blog. Offers the reader videos
a blog in subscribe to it and it It does and photo’s to look at
2000, it is is also available over reach its along with articles with
collaborative twitter (121554 expectatio hyperlinks that link to
as a group of followers) and ns as it has other websites and blogs.
people Facebook. (29569 many Reader is able to
create the likes) with this many different subscribe with an RSS
blog and followers and likes links linking feed and an archive with
then readers we can presume that to different the popular topics is
read it. it has many users blogs and shown. Blogs usually
that read the blog websites provide an archive to
regularly. Not as and show everything that they
many as popular as contains a have posted but
other blog sites but wide range sometimes they don’t
is still successful as of topics. show the most popular
has been around posts for example Tumblr.
since 2000.

7. Blog Site Information Number of Type (does the Tools offered (what makes
users (the blog reach its one blog different to the
more users, expectations of other)
the more type of blog?)
popular,
greater impact
on bloggers)
Thoughts.com Benjamin Ogden Unclear to how Personal blog, It connects you to others
launched it in many users, but Bloggers are able from the very first post. This
2007 with the its community is to create their is unique and not seen in
purpose of narrowed down very own other blogs, as normally you
evolving and to those personal blog. are recommended what blogs
creating a unique interested in However the to follow. Bloggers are meant
blogging thoughtful and participation in to write the blog and the site
community that meaningful groups and provides the audience. It
encourages social topics such as discussions. It contains multimedia tools
conversation and love, divorce, breaks the that allow the blogger to
connects like- poems, boundary of share photos and videos with
minded people relationships traditional ease, much like all blogs do.
through its friends and personal blogs by Bloggers are able to connect
community family. (Has being able to and discuss topics by creating
forums and live many tags of discuss their groups, similar to social
discussions. this) expected experiences in a networking sites.
from a personal group
blog.

8. Blog Site Information Number of users Type (does the blog Tools offered (what
(the more users, reach its makes one blog
the more expectations of different to the
popular, greater type of blog?) other)
impact on
bloggers)
posterous.com Launched in Cannot find stats Media type/micro Like the typical blog,
2008, of how many users blog. Seen as this it allows you to posts
Posterous online, but a blog type of blog, photos text and video
post on July 2011,
allows however its content and people can
a blog on
bloggers to posterous called is much larger than comment and like
set up a jailcloud said: “This that of other micro them.
simple blog morning we just blogs such as
through passed the twitter, but still
email, and 500,000 (half a reasonably small in
then submit million) users terms of content in
content milestone for a post compared to
Jolicloud” this
either the typical blog.
suggests that there
through their are a lot of users
email or by using this blog and
online editor. using posterous so
that they can view
the blog.

9. Blog Site Information Number of users Type (does the Tools offered (what
(the more users, blog reach its makes one blog
the more popular, expectations of different to the other)
greater impact on
type of blog?)
bloggers)
Dailykos.com An American The site says it has Topic driven Posts are seen as dairy
political blog, with 2 million blog. Yes this is posts that in a high
founded in 2002 by unique visitors per a topic driven amount of detail. The
Markos Moulitsas. month and 300,000
blog as it blogger can also post
It was once a news registered users.
organisation For one topic based focuses a lot on a comic reflecting on a
community. Among around politics this topics such as point they are trying
luminaries posting is a lot of users, but politics and the to make, much like
diaries on the site compared to the news in a strong those that are seen in
are President Jimmy total number of amount of traditional papers. No
Carter, Senator bloggers together detail as it is an other blogs allow
Barack Obama, and and to number of American comics to be posts,
other senators and bloggers on other
political blog. but they do allow
governor’s. blogs this can be
Hundreds of seen as a small images to be posts so
thousands of number. It is smaller they are fairly similar.
Americans that than other blogs
use Daily Kos to because this blog is
shape a political purely focused on
world . political topics.

10. Blog Site Information Number of Type (does the Tools offered (what
users (the blog reach its makes one blog
more users, expectations of different to the other)
the more type of blog?)
popular,
greater impact
on bloggers)
musicarcades.com A music Looking Genre specific On it is an archive and
genre blog through his blog. It focuses on it is arranged as
set up from posts there music as a genre calendar with the
2005-2011 weren’t many but in particular pictures of the music
by David comments at the music he has art associated with
Jennings. It all. This shows listened to and the song he listens to.
contains a little makes a reflective There are also links
reflective participation account on it. This available to places like
account of in the blog could be seen as a amazon where you
what he felt and so a small personal blog too. can buy the song he is
when he amount of talking about. It is
listened to a bloggers. mainly text based
particular with a lot of links.
song on his
playlist on a
day.

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