In this paper, we focus on blogger search in blogs in particular, who are the top authors for blogs of a particular topic. All blogs and their interconnections are collectively called the blogosphere. We emphasis on a new graph structure known as blogger graph, is proposed in the blogosphere based on the bloggers information. We concentrated on blogger search in blogs – in particular, who are t...

Can we cluster blogs into types by considering their typical posting and linking behavior? How do blogs evolve over time? In this work we answer these questions, by providing several sets of blog and post features that can help distinguish between blogs. The first two sets of features focus on the topology of the cascades that the blogs are involved in, and the last set of features focuses on t...

Recent studies have shown that using social media such as blogs and wikis in classroom can enhance student learning. In this paper, we briefly introduce constructivist and social learning theories, blog technology and the use of blogs in education, and different design architecture of educational blogs. We then present a case study of using blogs in an undergrad level management information sys...

La blogosfera literaria se ha transformado en los últimos años. El período de mayor efervescencia durante la primera década del milenio dado paso a una migración hacia otras plataformas y redes sociales. Este artículo analiza las investigaciones publicadas entre 2000-2020 revistas internacionales indexadas Scopus WoS, ERIC, así como Google Scholar LISA sobre el blog literario su función prescri...

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 aspects of the blogistan: its overall scope and size, identification of emerging hot topics of discussion and link patterns, and implications both to blogs and applications such as search. Beyond blogs, we develop a general...

Problem statement: Information search, collection and categorization from the blogosphere are still one of the important issues to be resolved. Mainly, the blogs assist the variety of interesting and useful information. Because of its increasing growth, blogs can not be categorized effectively. Therefore it is difficult to find relevant topics from the blogs. Hence blogs need to be categorized ...

This paper uses Social Network Analysis indexes to study Greek political blogs. The indexes describe bloggers’ community recommendations, centrality and bloggers’ attempt to form spheres of influence. Five Social Network Analysis indexes are used: incoming links, normalized betweenness, outgoing links, number of 1-cliques a blog belongs to, and size of blog’s ego-network. By recording 127 Greek...