GIS and the Blogosphere
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Weblogs, their content and community structures, all live online. Bloggers, the topics they discuss and the resulting impact all have some manifestation in the physical world. This paper makes an initial investigation into the ways in which these two spaces can be connected and how that connection can be understood via the integration of weblog mining systems and geographical information systems.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005