Towards a taxonomy of blogs

Jay Rosen proposes:

"If we just want to get started with mapping different motivations and situations, we might identify:

* 1. closed system blogs, like inside a company
* 2. open system, on the Web, private or personal content (written for family, friends, E-pals.)
* 3. open system, on the Web, public content, via commercial provider (professional journalists who blog fit here)
* 4. open system, on the Web, public content, via independent provider (bloggers would be this)
* 5. open system, on the web, public content, via educational provider (some bloggers fit here)
* 6. open system, on the Web, scholarly/technical content, via commercial provider


and so on. Only blogs in categories 3,4,5 can be journalism weblogs."

(interestingly he does this in a *comment*)

to continue the biological metaphor (suggested by taxonomy) it should be noted that within each phylum, there are different classes of blog - journal-style or filter style, as defined by rebecca blood