An interesting model from Robin Hamman on different types of blog.

• The ‘closed’ blog is your typical family/holiday/baby blog, aimed at a close circle of people;
• the ‘conduit’ blog is the type of blog that people create when they really need a website – a repository of information for a limited audience;
• The ‘participant’ blog is more complex. These “are connectors of ideas and people, but also of conversations that flow between them. Blogs of this sort have an audience potentially as big as the numbers actively engaged in the conversation.” I’m guessing that this blog is one of those

A commenter wants to add diary blogs – though these may fit in ‘closed’ or ‘participant’. I’d like to add the organisational news blog, though I suspect this would fit under ‘conduit’.

A nice model, though.