Weblog is an Internet tool that is believed to possess great potential to facilitate learning in education. This study wants to know if weblog can be used to promote students’ critical thinking. It used a group of secondary two students from a Singapore school to write weblogs as a means of substitution for their traditional handwritten assignments. The topics for the weblogging are taken from ...

There are various Knowledge Management Systems available currently and designed to support knowledge sharing and learning. An example of these are “Experiencebased Information Systems” in the domain of Software Engineering, i.e., Information Systems designed to support experience management. Lately, these have become more and more sophisticated from a technical point of view. However, there are...

The rapid development of the internet eventually increases the number of internet users triggering the need for an intelligent search engine that is able to minimize the search on world wide web (WWW) and find relevant information as requested. To overcome the issue of finding relevant information as well as minimizing the search on WWW, this paper proposes a search engine that is specifically ...

Purpose – Weblogs, or blogs, have been a significant new development in recent years. Many businesses have begun using blogs to stimulate discussions, garner ideas, and provide further visibility. Thus, blog usage as well as individual motives behind continued usage is an important area of research. This research aims to examine behavioral motivations underlying individual intention to keep usi...

Since the emergence of Web 2.0 and its easy-to-use web based applications, summarized under the term Social Software, ordinary Internet users are empowered to generate and publish content themselves (O’Reilly 04). During the last two years, it has become quite popular to externalize knowledge on the Web by using social media tools including, most of the time Wikis and Weblogs. While in the past...

Weblogs are now a key part of online culture, and social scientists are interested in characterising the networks formed by bloggers and measuring their extent and impact in areas such as politics. However, researchers wishing to conduct quantitative social science analysis of the blogging phenomenon are faced with the challenge of using new methods of data collection and analysis largely deriv...

We seek out to investigate the social networks manifested in weblogs. Our dataset, derived from an initial list of URIs, consists of 3.9M files in XML or RDF format, totalling over 400M statements in RDF. We continue by applying wellknown network analysis algorithm to parts of the derived network. Our experiments show that links analysis algorithms benefit from input in a common, structured dat...

The first national IT-summit in Germany had the goal to communicate the common conviction and objective target of the German government as well as economic and scientific organizations that Germany is on its way to become the ICT-market number one worldwide. Critiques however soon started to complain about the inaccurate representation of SME’s and the German public in general in the planning p...