Wine-blogs are important for the information provision and promotion of wine industry and tourism activities related to wine. The paper records 1305 wine-blogs and their inter-linkages through their blogrolls. It uses Social Network Analysis to study blogs’ networking characteristics and connectivity. The study proposes five graph-theoretic indexes and explores whether wine-blogs are making use...

The popularity of science blogging has increased in recent years, but the number of academic scientists who maintain regular blogs is limited. The role and impact of science communication blogs aimed at general audiences is often discussed, but the value of science community blogs aimed at the academic community has largely been overlooked. Here, we focus on our own experiences as bloggers to a...

Purpose: This qualitative study aims to interpret and describe how young women diagnosed with a breast cancer uses blogs to manage daily life. Methods: 14 blogs written by women diagnosed with breast cancer aged between 25 and 38 years. These blogs were analysed using qualitative thematic analysis. Results: Four themes were identified in the data body illustrating what the women were writing ab...

Blogs are currently very popular. Many website portals, such as Yahoo Blog, PChome Blog, and Sina, offer different functions and personal services to attract potential blog users, as this generates greater advertising income. Ensuring that users continue to use blog is important to the survival of these portals. Previous articles investigate the system functions and information quality of blogs...

Blogging has become a useful way for people to publish data on the Internet, which contains posts, comments, trackbacks etc. They can also share latest news and opinions. As several blogs have risen up on the web, the users have the problem to identify which of the blogs contain useful information & data. My attempt in this paper is to present a road map in ranking blogs. In the first blush, it...

This paper proposes a mutual detection mechanism between spam blogs and words with bipartite graph clustering for fi ltering spam blogs from updated blog data. Spam blogs are problematic in extracting useful marketing information from the blogosphere; they often appear to be rich sources of information based on individual opinion and social reputation. One characteristic of spam blogs is copied...