Blogs are personal online diaries, and a relatively recent form of computer-mediated communication. What kind of writing do they contain? This paper adopts a measure of linguistic contextuality/formality, due to Heylighen and Dewaele, and applies it to a corpus of weblogs. It first compares the corpus with sub-corpora from the British National Corpus, and weblogs are shown to be more formal tha...

This study investigates Weblog users’ behavioral data on a hosting service in Japan. The study analyzes users’ behaviors, such as browsing and bookmarking, in addition to posting comments and sending trackbacks. Results of this study reveal the causes of a user’s visiting and regularly browsing behaviors, especially from a social network point of view. The correlation between the strength of tw...

This paper examines the effects of using weblog technologies to support cooperative learning in higher education. The study focused on the effects of features embedded in weblogs on social interactions, time lags, and cognitive loads. A quasi-experimental control-group research design was adopted. The participants were 115 undergraduates who were randomly divided into two groups. Students in th...

This article examines how weblog authors present their online gender identity, in order to establish how these modes of presentation fit into the research landscape about gender identity and computer-mediated communication (CMC). After a preliminary descriptive analysis of a sample of Dutch and Flemish weblogs, the authors conduct a qualitative content analysis of four of these ‘blogs’. They co...

A new wrapper induction algorithm WTM for generating rules that describe the general web page layout template is presented. WTM is mainly designed for use in weblog crawling and indexing system. Most weblogs are maintained by content management systems and have similar layout structures in all pages. In addition, they provide RSS feeds to describe the latest entries. These entries appear in the...

There are many ways to profile a collection of documents. This paper presents highlight from a body of work that has looked at individual differences in the language of personal weblogs. Firstly, we present a unitary measure of linguistic contextuality based on POS frequency that can be used to profile and rank genres. When applied to weblogs, we will show they are similar to school essays, yet...