Discussions on Media genre
A Blog is a Media genre
I am trying to figure out how to make a Blog be a Media genre; I'm very new here and it seems like to do that I should suggest it either here or on the Blog type discussion page, or in both places.
Looks like you figured it out!
But what I mean is that the type Blog should be in type "Media genre" and inherit its properties.
If you want to create a new type "Blog", you should make it first in your private domain or on Sandbox. I'm not sure what our protocol for moving private schemas to the public domains is (if we have one), but a private domain is definitely the place to start.
In terms of property inheritance, there is none -- a schema in one of the "public" domains has no particular special properties that a published schema in a private domain lacks, AFAIK.
The type Blog really shouldn’t be a sub-type of (i.e., include the type) Media genre. Blogs, collectively, are a media genre; Daily Kos is a blog, not a media genre. Broadcast television is a media genre; your local NBC affiliate is a television station, not a media genre. Does that make sense?
Even I was confused as I was thinking about this. The difference is between Blog being TYPED Media genre and Blog INCLUDING type Media genre. In the first case, you're only speaking for the Blog type itself, which, as Chris pointed, is the correct thing to do. In the second, you are speaking for all instances of the Blog type, asserting them to be Media genres.
