One of the promises of web-based education is to help students take control of their learning pace as the basic requirement of language learning is being life-long. The purpose of the present study was to find out which of the e-tools -- weblogs, wikis, or podcasts -- can better help EFL learners excel in their writing skill. To this end, 156 Iranian sophomore students majoring in English and s...

Data extraction from the web is notoriously hard. Of the types of resources available on the web, weblogs are becoming increasingly important due to the continued growth of the blogosphere, but remain poorly explored. Past approaches to data extraction from weblogs have often involved manual intervention and suffer from low scalability. This paper proposes a fully automated information extracti...

Characterizing web users based on their interactions with a particular website is a key problem in web mining. Such interactions are reflected by clickstream data in weblogs, the content of the pages that they view, as well as their actions such as search queries typed in. In general a wide variety of behaviors is observed at popular websites. So, to make the problem more tractable, it is often...

This paper presents a study of the various aspects of blog reading behavior. The analyzed data are obtained from a Japanese weblog hosting service, Doblog. Four kinds of social networks are generated and analyzed: citation, comment, trackback, and blogroll networks. In addition, the user log data are used to identify readership relations among bloggers. After analysis of more than 50,000 users ...

Weblogs have emerged as a popular form of online communication, driven by an array of personal, professional and social motivations. These websites provide tools for interaction, but designed as a broadcast medium, the depth and breadth of personal relationships between authors are not immediately observable. Hypertext links made between blogs have been described as conversation, affiliation, o...

The goals of this study were to learn about students' perspectives on literature and blogs for teaching Islamic values the millennial generation. This research was mixed-methods research. subject generation at State Institute Curup, especially students English Tadris Study Program. instruments questionnaires interviews. included 30 as participants. findings poll reveal that most have a favourab...

Weblogs are dynamic websites updated via easy-to-use content management systems and organized as a set of chronologically ordered stories, frequently built around a link or including links to other weblogs. Since they are managed by individuals, their links tend to mirror or, in some cases, establish new types of social relations, thereby creating a social network. Studying the evolution of thi...