Design Apple Pie: Blogging Community

Blogging community is an advancement where Bloggers share information to each other and allow them to connect and organized as one voices (Holman, 2011). Blogging community formed based on enthusiast’s posts of one specific theme, such as gaming, travelling or automotive which then triggered other fanatics to visit the blog. Today, new options invented by RSS and feedreaders ease users in finding new blogs.

White(2011) claimed that there are three types of blogging communities which are;

Single Blog/ Blogger Centric Community,

Owned by one particular company, organization or a certain group. Member’s comments are usually filtered and their liberty is repressed, means there is almost no chance of visitors or members to create a new topic.

Central Connecting Topic Community

Formed and maintained by individual but established together with the members unit. Topics can be influenced or requested by members where hierarchy within blog is wavered.

Boundaried Communities,

Assemblages of blogs and stories from numerous bloggers .Normally, members who join the community have already owned a personal blog and this specific society are functioned as a forum for them. Naturally, the domain server plays a least role in the blog’s establishment where members are free to post and obtain comments on their own.

A proper example for boundaried method would be http://lookbook.nu. This giant fashion sites contains numerous of members who upload their photography related to fashion and also share information amongst community. Aside from different individual page with a comment box served by Lookbook.nu, this platform also provides a link to member’s social networking and personal blog which can be accessed by others followers. A congregation of these participations constructed lookbook.nu to become a widespread fashion site.