Over the past few years, the emergence of Web 2.0 technologies such as weblogs, wikis, and social networks has created new opportunies and challenges in the field of foreign language learning. The characteristics of Web 2.0, which facilitate interactive information sharing, user-centered designs, and online collaboration, are recognized to have great potential for more effective teaching and le...

This article provides a model for defining the weblog and differentiating between its manifestations. First we have the definition of the weblog based on the basic format-websites with posts in reverse-chronological order. Second we have audience, the division between those weblogs that deal with personal issues and expect an audience known to the author, and those that place themselves in the ...

Weblogs are web sites where one or several authors publish their opinions about current events. Even in Spain, there are several thousands, and it is often difficult to find a weblog that meets one's interest. Recommendation services thus become, if not a need, at least a convenience. In this paper we propose automatic extraction of association rules from the results of a survey as a means to r...

Nowadays, weblogs or blogs are important tools for personal or workgroup websites publication. These tools give the necessary performances to create, edit, evaluate, publish and file digital contents, in the framework of a standarized workflow, and for managing the digital information life cycle. Nevertheless, these tools must be complemented with existence of technical funcionalities necessary...

In order to perform analysis over weblogs, we must first identify the appropriate unit of a weblog that corresponds to a document. We argue in the paper that, for weblogs, the correct unit is the weblog post. A weblog post is a structured document with the following fields: date, timestamp, title, content, permalink and author. We present our approach for segmenting weblogs into posts, which br...

User generated content published via weblogs (also known as blogs) has gained importance in the last years, and the number of globally available weblogs increases. However, a large fraction of these show low publishing activity and are rarely read. This paper is a quantitative analysis of success factors in a community of over 15.000 weblogs, hosted by a local Austrian newspaper. We looked at p...

This paper focuses on the concept of consciousness and liminality in the Iranian Diaspora and the way Iranians create digital diasporas where they can practise cultural identities outside the homeland. The discussion elaborates on the concept of traditional dowreh (family/social circle) in the fibre of Persian culture and then illustrates the creation of a virtual dowreh among...

Weblogs have become an influential form of Web publication and communication, with leading weblog sites attracting millions of visitors, and creating considerable media hype as well as commercial value. Yet, weblog success is not easily achieved, as some research suggests that following “powerlaw” with only few weblogs achieve very high level of readership while most weblogs garner little atten...