This article investigates the usage of blogs in electoral campaigns in Sweden, a country characterized by strong political parties and a party centered form of representative democracy. The central argument is that blogs are utilized in different ways by different parties. The empirical analysis based on a survey among over 600 blogging politicians indicates a vast difference in uptake and usag...

In today’s content-centric Internet, blogs are becoming increasingly popular and important from a data analysis perspective. According to Wikipedia, there were over 156 million public blogs on the Internet as of February 2011. Blogs are a reflection of our contemporary society. The contents of different blog posts are important from social, psychological, economical and political perspectives. ...

In this paper, we outline our experiments carried out at the TREC 2009 Blog Distillation Task. Our system is based on a plain text index extracted from the XML feeds of the TREC Blogs08 dataset. This index was used to retrieve candidate blogs for the given topics. The resulting blogs were classified using a Support Vector Machine that was trained on a manually labelled subset of the TREC Blogs0...

The last decade lead to an unbelievable growth of the importance of social media. Due to the huge amounts of documents appearing in social media, there is an enormous need for the automatic analysis of such documents. In this work, we focus on the analysis of documents appearing in blogs. We present a proof-of-concept industrial application, developed in cooperation with Capgemini Magyaroszág K...

The “memeta” project is developing a framework for studying the structure and content of the blogosphere. We are particularly interested in how metadata about blogs can be discovered, extracted and computed, and how this metadata can be modeled, represented and analyzed to provide new blog related services. Weblogs, or blogs, are web sites consisting of dated entries (posts) typically organized...

This study investigates Weblog users’ behavioral data on a hosting service in Japan. The study analyzes users’ behaviors, such as browsing and bookmarking, in addition to posting comments and sending trackbacks. Results of this study reveal the causes of a user’s visiting and regularly browsing behaviors, especially from a social network point of view. The correlation between the strength of tw...

This research project presents an effort to use entry texts and hyperlinks in personal weblogs to observe the variance of local culture reflected in American cities. By geocoding the blogosphere, this project indexes the location of personal weblogs. The hyperlink network among blogs in American cities is presented. Finally, maps of two keywords’ distribution among American cities are plotted. ...

Compared with previous studies that have focused on customers’ behavioral intentions or the factors that influence purchase behaviors on blogs or discussion boards, in this study, we examine the factors of independent food blogs or discussion boards that influence users’ customer citizenship behaviors. Six food blogs were selected based on the flow rate and food diaries. 323 Subjects were chose...

This case study investigates the areas of selfreflection through the written content of four university students’ blogs. The study was undertaken to explore the categories of selfreflection in relation to the use of blogs. Data collection methods included downloading students’ blog entries and recording individual interviews to further support the data. Data was analyzed using computer assisted...