John Evans of Syntagma recently wrote an extremely compelling post explaining that there are three different types or categories of blogs in the blogosphere. His idea resonated through the blogosphere and was picked up by the Blog Herald. He explained the three categories as follows:
- Primary: General consumer blogs, such as teen blogs, family blogs, and other personal blogs (i.e. My Space, etc.).
- Secondary: Business blogs...purely-for-business blogs. They exist to sell products and services and are usually tied to companies or organizations.
- Tertiary: Serious bloggers, or as John describes them those "who talk endlessly about "the blogosphere". Recognize them? They are serious bloggers, info-providers, probloggers, A, B, and C-listers, people who use blogs to sell themselves and their ideas ~ what H.G. Wells called "the originative intellectual workers".
I think Somewhat Frank would fall into the third category as a tertiary blog as well. I think that it would be innovative to take John's idea a step further and formulate a group or committee of tertiary bloggers to come up with basic guidelines or standards for further categorizing and ranking these three types of blogs. In doing so we could help create a standard protocol to answer the questions the come up with blogs (i.e. current categorization and ranking standards) much like the World Wide Web Consortium has done in creating protocols to lead the web to it's full potential. Is anyone interested in creating a committee to help manage and improve the state of the blogosphere?
