The aim of this study is to understand the role of bloggers in driving viral information. More specifically, we develop a new methodology that creates a map of the „life cycleâ€...
Karine Nahon, Jeff Hemsley, Shawn Walker, Muzammil...
In the blogosphere, the amount of digital content is expanding and for search engines, new challenges have been imposed. Due to the changing information need, automatic methods are...
Elisabeth Lex, Andreas Juffinger, Michael Granitze...
Blog evaluation and ranking became increasingly important over the last decade. Given the large number of blogs on the web today the currently used approach of blog ranking by pop...
This paper presents the first examination of the growing phenomenon of multi-author, or group blogs. Using a large collection of blog posts gathered over an eight month period, we...
How do blogs produce posts? What local, underlying mechanisms lead to the bursty temporal behaviors observed in blog networks? Earlier work analyzed network patterns of blogs and ...
Michaela Goetz, Jure Leskovec, Mary McGlohon, Chri...
With an increasing number of people that read, write and comment on blogs, the blogosphere has established itself as an essential medium of communication. A fundamental characteri...
This paper presents a stochastic graph based method for recommending or selecting a small subset of blogs that best represents a much larger set. within a certain topic. Each blog...
Ahmed Hassan, Dragomir R. Radev, Junghoo Cho, Amru...
In this paper we propose a new approach to capture the inclination towards a certain election candidate from the contents of blogs and to explain why that inclination may be so. T...
We explore the hypothesis that it is possible to obtain information about the dynamics of a blog network by analysing the temporal relationships between blogs at a semantic level, ...
The increasingly prominent new subset of Web pages, called `blogs' differs from traditional Web pages both in characteristics and potential to applications. We explore three ...