The changing trends in the use of web technology that aims to enhance interconnectivity, self-expression and information sharing on the web has led to the development of online, many-to-many communication services such as blogs. Information elements in blogs can be interlinked. The succession of linking behavior determines the way in which information propagates among blogs, forming cascades. A...

This study examines the content of Portuguese wine blogs and addresses two main questions: (i) which content and design elements of Portuguese wine blogs have more impact on the promotion of wine, and (ii) how can the content and design quality of wine blogs be assessed and improved. To answer these questions, a number of features of wine blogs are examined, and an initial attempt is made to de...

Blogs are an easy-to-use, free alternative to classic means of computer-mediated communication. Moreover, they are authentically aligned with web activity patterns of today’s students. The body of studies on integrating and implementing blogs in various educational settings has grown rapidly recently; however, it is often difficult to distill practical advice from these studies since the applic...

Blogs have created a fast growing social network on the Internet. However ranking solutions are not sufficient to capture relationships between important blogs and between communities. In our paper, we combine blog rankings with their social connections to provide a framework to understand multiple blog communities. A novel mountain view visualization is provided to explore different communitie...

Fashion bloggers are fast becoming an influential force within the fashion industry, which has been facilitated by the growth of new media. However, very little research has looked at the influence of fashion bloggers on consumers, and their adoption of fashion trends. The purpose of this exploratory study was to understand how fashion bloggers influence the attitudes and opinions of their read...

With the growing popularity of the Web 2.0, we are more and more provided with documents expressing opinions on different topics. Recently, new research approaches were defined in order to automatically extract such opinions on the Internet. Usually they consider that opinions are expressed through adjectives and they extensively use either general dictionaries or experts in order to provide th...

Sentiment mining is a computational approach used to identify expressions made about topics within a span of text. The blogosphere is a particularly useful corpus for sentiment mining because bloggers express a wide variety of opinions and sentiments in their online journals. Previous works on sentiment identification and extraction have been primarily focused on using machine-learning methods ...

We have described a blog system called Tour de Blog that allows geographical tracking of individual blogs. Our system considers a group of blogs that a user defines as belonging to the same category in chronological order and tracks them as one ”Tour”. The system offers an easy way to post blogs with location information from a mobile device and displays the transitions in the times and places ...

Following constructionism and the learning by doing approach of Papert in our university web design course students are given the task of building a personal blogs. Students thus practice selected Web technologies. The task is supported by a dedicated web-based integrated development environment. Their blogs are interconnected and communication is available. Students are also encouraged to publ...

Resumen. En la presente investigación se propone un modelo para la identi cación de per les de usuario, a través de la creación y análisis de un grafo de co-ocurrencia. Se utilizan 4 corpus en Inglés: de Blogs, de Redes sociales, de Críticas y de Twitter y 2 corpus en Español: de Blogs y de Críticas para el desarrollo de los grafos. Para la creación y extracción de la información del grafo se h...