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;Personal blogs: The personal blog is an ongoing online diary or commentary written by an individual, rather than a corporation or organization. While the vast majority of personal blogs attract very few readers, other than the blogger's immediate family and friends, a small number of personal blogs have become popular, to the point that they have attracted lucrative advertising sponsorship. A tiny number of personal bloggers have become famous, both in the online community and in the real world.

;Collaborative blogs or group blogs: A type of weblog in which posts are written and published by more than one author. The majority of high-profile collaborative blogs are organised according to a single uniting theme, such as politics, technology or advocacy. In recent years, the [[blogosphere]] has seen the emergence and growing popularity of more collaborative efforts, often set up by already established bloggers wishing to pool time and resources, both to reduce the pressure of maintaining a popular website and to attract a larger readership.

;[[Microblogging]]: Microblogging is the practice of posting small pieces of digital content—which could be text, pictures, links, short videos, or other media—on the internet. Microblogging offers a portable communication mode that feels organic and spontaneous to many users. It has captured the public imagination, in part because the short posts are easy to read on the go or when waiting. Friends use it to keep in touch, business associates use it to coordinate meetings or share useful resources, and celebrities and politicians (or their publicists) microblog about concert dates, lectures, book releases, or tour schedules. A wide and growing range of add-on tools enables sophisticated updates and interaction with other applications. The resulting profusion of functionality is helping to define new possibilities for this type of communication.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/7-things-you-should-know-about-microblogging |title=7 Things You Should Know About Microblogging |publisher=Educause.Edu |date=July 7, 2009 |access-date=October 25, 2012}}</ref> Examples of these include Twitter, Facebook, [[Tumblr]] and, by far the largest, [[Sina Weibo|Weibo]].

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==Early popularity==

*'''Before 2006:''' The [[blogdex]] project was launched by researchers in the [[MIT Media Lab]] to crawl the Web and gather data from thousands of blogs to investigate their social properties. Information was gathered by the tool for over four years, during which it autonomously tracked the most contagious information spreading in the blog community, ranking it by recency and popularity. It can, therefore,{{original research inline|date=September 2012}} be considered the first instantiation of a [[memetracker]]. The project was replaced by [[tailrank.com]], which in turn has been replaced by spinn3r.com.

*'''2006:''' Blogs are given rankings by [[Alexa Internet]] (web hits of Alexa Toolbar users), and formerly by blog search engine [[Technorati]] based on the number of incoming links (Technorati stopped doing this in 2014). In August 2006, Technorati found that the most linked-to blog on the internet was that of Chinese actress [[Xu Jinglei]].<ref name="Fickling">Fickling, David, [http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2006/08/15/internet_killed_the_tv_star.html Internet killed the TV star], ''[[The Guardian]]'' NewsBlog, August 15, 2006</ref> Chinese media [[Xinhua]] reported that this blog received more than 50 million page views, claiming it to be the most popular blog in the world at the time.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-08/24/content_672747.htm|title=Xu Jinglei most popular blogger in world|date=August 24, 2006|access-date=June 5, 2008|newspaper=China Daily}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=October 2021}} Technorati rated [[Boing Boing]] to be the most-read group-written blog.<ref name="Fickling"/>

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==Blurring with the mass media==

Many bloggers, particularly those engaged in [[citizen journalism|participatory journalism]], are amateur journalists, and thus they differentiate themselves from the professional reporters and editors who work in [[mainstream media]] organizations. Other bloggers are media professionals who are publishing online, rather than via a TV station or newspaper, either as an add-on to a traditional media presence (e.g., hosting a radio show or writing a column in a paper newspaper), or as their sole journalistic output. Some institutions and organizations see blogging as a means of "getting around the filter" of media "[[gatekeeper]]s" and pushing their messages directly to the public. Many mainstream journalists, meanwhile, write their own blogs—well over 300, according to CyberJournalist.net's J-blog list.{{citation needed|date=June 2010}} The first known use of a blog on a news site was in August 1998, when [[Jonathan Dube]] of ''[[The Charlotte Observer]]'' published one chronicling [[Hurricane Bonnie (1998)|Hurricane Bonnie]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Blogging Bonnie.|publisher=[[Poynter.org]]|date=September 18, 2003 |url=http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=52&aid=48413/}}</ref>