Company blog : This category is used by professionals or companies to let their customers or clients know about their upcoming products being made on some projects.

Non - profit blog : This category incoporates the non - profit organistions which use blogging to create awareness and raise money for their cause.

Politics blog : The active members of this category are the political parties or members of parliament, who use blogging to remain connected with their cause.

News and Views blog : This type of blog is normally used by the journalists to post factual stories and views about the latest events.

Microblog : This is another category of blogs that comprise of short entries or updates about the routine tasks of an individual or a company. It is manily used to keep friends, colleagues, and customers updated as the entires become a running commentary about one's life and interests. Twitter is the best example of Microblog where one can post 280 - characters long messages called "tweets" at a time.

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF BLOGGING

Advantages

• Enable you to pen down your thoughts on anything that interests you.
• There is no time constraint in blogging. You are your own boss. You can practically work while vacationing.
• No office setup is required. You can work from anywhere in the world. All you need is your computer and an Internet connection to post your blog.
• It is easy to set up as one does not require technical knowledge and is quick to add and update new posts. People can write comments on your blog which can prove to be motivational for you.
• Provides collaborative learning environment and helps learners develop social skills about group consensus and compromise. Students are being encourage to become authors and improve their writing and reading skills.

Disadvantages

• Recognition of your talent can be a slow process, and initially, traffic can be quite low for your blog, your approach should be optimistic.
• While writing, you need to be thoughtful and unbiased; otherwise, it may have negative impact on the readers.
• People can sometimes prove to be rude in their comments which may disappoint you.
• You need to be very active and disciplined as a blogger so that people do not lose internet.
• Blogs, especially personal blogs, are not considered to be reliable.

NEWSGROUP

A Newsgroup is an online discussion forum where remotely connected users share and discuss a particular topic. The users / subscribes can exchange text messages, images, videos, and other digital media.

People from different locations post articles here which all the other subscribes od the newsgroup can read and respond to. The collection of these messages and responses on one topic or question form a thread, which id displayed in chronological order by data of posting. The newsreader software is used to read aand post these messages. The newsreader is a program that runs on your computer and connects you to a news server on the Internet.