Weblogs, or blogs are radically changing the face of communication within enterprises. While at the minimum blogs empower employees to publicly voice opinion and share expertise, collectively they improve collaboration and enable internal business intelligence. Though the power of blogs within organizations is well accepted, their properties, structure and utility has not yet been formally anal...

ICWSM’2007 Boulder, Colorado, USA Abstract There is a growing interest in social network analysis to explore how communities and individuals spread influence. We describe techniques to find "like minded" blogs based on blog-to-blog link sentiment for a particular domain. Using simple sentiment detection techniques, we identify the polarity (positive, negative or neutral) of the text surrounding...

Political blogs are one of the pivotal alternative communication channels for political news in Malaysia. Many have argued that the mushrooming of political blogs nurtures the effective realization of human rights in the country. The paper studies the ‘Malaysian political blog readers–human rights’ relationship by exploring these questions: Has traditional mainstream media become obsolete with ...

How does the structure of a network (e.g. its organization into groups or communities) impact the interaction among its nodes? In this paper we propose a generic methodology to study the correlation between complex networks interactions and their community structure. We illustrate it on a blog network and focus on citation links. We first define a homophily probability evaluating the tendency o...

This paper reports RMIT’s participation in the TREC Blog Track 2010. For the baseline task, we adopted the BM25 model implemented in the Zettair search engine to establish a retrieval system of blog posts based on topic relevance. We then experimented with a number of different approaches to aggregate the post similarity scores to retrieve the most relevant blogs. Similarly, for the faceted dis...

BACKGROUND The roll out of HPV immunization programs across the United States was hindered by controversy. We tracked the debate in the United States through MySpace, then the most popular social networking site, in order to better understand the public's reaction to the vaccine. METHODS We searched MySpace for all blog discourse related to HPV immunization. We analyzed each blog according to...

412 | P a g e ABSTRACT Blogs are most common medium over web where user posts their opinion. It is considered to be a web space of the users where they share their views, beliefs and other philosophy. Blogs posted across the web can be extracted from their rss feed. Once a blog is posted, several readers leaves their comment on the blogs. Analyzing these comments can help in finding the opinion...

A content-based network representation of web logs (blogs) using a basic word-overlap similarity measure is presented. Due to a strong signal in blog data the approach is sufficient for accurately classifying blogs. Using Swedish blog data we demonstrate that blogs that treat similar subjects are organized in clusters that, in turn, are hierarchically organized in higher-order clusters. The sim...

Blogs constitute a remarkable artifact of the Web. Most people think of them as Web pages with reverse chronological sequences of dated entries, usually with sidebars of profile information and usually maintained and published with the help of a popular blog authoring tool. They tend to be quirky, highly personal, typically read by repeat visitors, and interwoven into a network of tight-knit bu...

The 21st century has seen revolutionary changes in online communication. Many information centers, educational institutions and business organizations are using Web logs along with other forms of communication to enhance their services. This chapter will explain corporate blogs, both its benefits and risks. It will explain with examples why blogs are important to organizations in terms of knowl...