Nancy White(2006) stated that blog can be classified in three main pattern which are one blog centric community, topic centric community, and boundaried community. Nancy White(2006) also gave the definition of blogging community which is similar to "online community" as the community interact with each other with the use of technologies. Britta Kinkeldei(2007) reports that to create blogging community have to find like-minded people and make connections to expand the blogsphere because it focus on organizations or shared interest as in Britta Kinkeldei(2007) also give definition of blog community is blog that aggregate people with shared interest. She gave two example of blog community as an example, MarmaBlog (for business women) and BlogKite (for those interested in kite). Juan J. Merelo, Beatriz Prieto(n.d.) stated that to perform blog community structure is to identify the audience first and also the information and based on formation,structure and visualization. One of the example of blog community is Jeff Ooi's Global voices. His blog is to report citizen media around the world. Jeff Ooi(2005) stated that he focus on Malaysian citizen as audience and his topic will be about government issues that can bring good future. This is he's structure of blog and his community.
Reference
1. White. N,2006, "blogs and community-launching a new paradigm for online community", viewed on 30 September 2010,http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community
2.Kinkeldei. B,2007, "White Paper Blog Community",viewed on 29 Sepetember2010, http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community
3.Ooi.J, 2005, "Glocal Voices",viewed on 29 September 2010, http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/jeffooi/
4.Merelo.JJ,Prieto.B,n.d. " Blogosphere community formation, structure and visualization",viewed 30September 2010,http://webdiis.unizar.es/~ftricas/Articulos/Blogosphere%20community%20formation.pdf
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